Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 136

"Smith, smith! make me just such a thin little voice as Ivashko's mother has: if you don't, I'll eat you."

Who acts: Smith, mother, you · What happens: make, have, not do, eat · To what, where: mother, you

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, mother, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Smith	punct
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smith	punct
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Smith	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 smith	punct
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	13 voice	advmod
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 voice	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 voice	det
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voice	amod
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	xcomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 has	mark
15	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 mother	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Ivashko	case
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 voice	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	advcl
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 do	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
26	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 eat	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make in a quote	infinitive	Smith	mother	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product
2	have in a quote	present	Ivashko's mother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat in a quote	future	mother	you	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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