Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 9

And the servant-maid said, "Long as I've served you, you've never given me so much as a rag; but she gave me a handkerchief."

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the servant maid				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	serve in a quote	present · perfect	the servant maid = maid	you			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
3	not give in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you	the servant maid = maid	as a rag	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme
4	give in a quote	past	maid	a handkerchief	the servant maid = maid		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient handkerchief=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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