Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 15

First give me to eat and to drink, and then ask me questions."

Who acts: you · What happens: give, eat, drink, ask · To what, where: me, questions

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drink	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 drink	mark
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ask	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ask	advmod
12	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ask	iobj
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ask	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		me		first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	questions	me	then		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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