Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 4

Long as I've served you," said the Cat, "you've never given me so much as a bone; but she gave me bacon."

Who acts: I, Cat · What happens: serve, say, not give, give · To what, where: you, Cat, bacon, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cat), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	advcl
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 served	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 served	nsubj
4	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 served	aux
5	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Long	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 served	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Long	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Long	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cat	det
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 given	nsubj:pass
15	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 given	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 given	advmod
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 given	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	23 bone	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 bone	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bone	det
23	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	serve	present · perfect	I	you			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the Cat			tree rules
3	not give	present · perfect · passive		you		as a bone	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme
4	give	past	Cat	bacon	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bacon=Theme

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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