Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 7

And the doors said, "Long as we've served you, you've never poured even a drop of water on our hinges; but she poured oil on us."

Who acts: doors, you, Cat · What happens: say, serve, not pour, pour · To what, where: we, drop, hinges, oil · 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 (doors, you, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doors	det
3	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Long	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Long	punct
7	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 served	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 served	nsubj:pass
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 served	aux
11	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Long	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 served	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 poured	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 poured	nsubj
15	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 poured	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 poured	advmod
17	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
18	even	even	ADV	_	20 drop	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 drop	det
20	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poured	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 water	case
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drop	nmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 hinges	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hinges	nmod:poss
25	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 poured	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 poured	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 poured	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 poured	nsubj
29	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
30	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poured	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 poured	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 poured	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the doors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	serve in a quote	present · perfect · passive		we			tree rules
3	not pour in a quote	present · perfect	you	a drop of water	our hinges		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	pour in a quote	past	Cat	oil		on us	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient

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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