Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 89
"Gladly would I have taken you, Prince Ivan!" replied the giant, "but now I have very little longer to live.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, reply, have, live · To what, where: you, giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 2 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ivan | compound |
| 10 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ivan | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ivan | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 have | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 little | advmod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 longer | amod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 have | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 live | mark |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 longer | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | would · perfect | I | you | gladly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | the giant | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | now | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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