Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 173
Thereupon Kruchina replied, "I will not give you back your crust, but in return for it I will make you a present of a duck which will lay a golden egg every day," and kept his word.
Who acts: Kruchina, duck · What happens: reply, not give back, make, lay, keep, word · To what, where: crust, you, present, return, golden egg, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kruchina, duck), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 replied | advmod |
| 2 | Kruchina | Kruchina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 give | advmod |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | back | back | ADP | _ | 9 give | compound:prt |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crust | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 return | case |
| 17 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 return | nmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 present | det |
| 25 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 duck | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 duck | det |
| 28 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 present | nmod |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 lay | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 lay | aux |
| 31 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 duck | acl:relcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 egg | det |
| 33 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 egg | amod |
| 34 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lay | obj |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 day | det |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 kept | cc |
| 40 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 word | nmod:poss |
| 42 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 kept | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Kruchina | thereupon property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not give back in a quote | future | Kruchina | your crust | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient crust=Theme | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | future | Kruchina | a present of a duck | you | return for crust | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product | ||
| 4 | lay in a quote | future | a duck | a golden egg | day | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | |||
| 5 | keep | past | Kruchina not said here | Kruchina's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 6 | word | Kruchina | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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