Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 25
"Do give me my shift!" she says. "
Who acts: eleven, my · What happens: give, say, shift · To what, where: shift, eleven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eleven, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shift | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my shift | eleven | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | eleven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shift in a quote | my | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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