Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 6

Then the dogs said to her, "Long as we've served you, you've never so much as pitched us a burnt crust; but she gave us rolls to eat."

Who acts: dogs, Cat · What happens: say, serve, pitch, give, roll, eat · To what, where: Cat, we, us · 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 (dogs, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Long	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Long	punct
9	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 served	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 served	nsubj:pass
12	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 served	aux
13	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Long	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 served	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 much	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 much	nsubj
17	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 much	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 much	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 pitched	mark
22	pitched	pitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 much	advcl
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 pitched	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 crust	det
25	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 crust	amod
26	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pitched	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	nsubj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 rolls	ccomp
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 gave	iobj
32	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 rolls	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 rolls	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dogs		Cat	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	serve in a quote	present · perfect · passive		we				tree rules
3	pitch in a quote	participle	the dogs not said here	us			a burnt crust obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	give in a quote	past	Cat		us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	roll in a quote	present	the dogs not said here					tree rules
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	the dogs not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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