Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 8

The birch-tree said, "Long as I've served you, you've never tied a single thread round me; but she fastened a ribbon around me."

Who acts: birch tree, tree · What happens: say, serve, not tie, fasten · To what, where: you, ribbon · 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 (birch tree, tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 birch	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Long	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Long	punct
8	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 served	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 served	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 served	aux
12	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 Long	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 served	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tied	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tied	nsubj:pass
16	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tied	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 tied	advmod
18	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thread	det
20	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thread	amod
21	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obj
22	round	round	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 thread	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fastened	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 fastened	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fastened	nsubj
27	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ribbon	det
29	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fastened	obj
30	around	around	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fastened	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 fastened	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the birch tree			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	serve in a quote	present · perfect	the birch tree = tree	you		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
3	not tie in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient thread=Result
4	fasten in a quote	past	tree	a ribbon	around the birch tree = tree	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=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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