Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 93
If you'll stop awhile with me first, and do some work for me, I'll give you a light.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stop, do, give · To what, where: work, light, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 stop | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 give | advcl |
| 5 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 4 stop | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | obl |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 stop | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 work | det |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 light | det |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop a condition, not said to happen | future | you | with me; awhile, first property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | some work | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | give | future | I | a light | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient light=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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