Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 177

In a Little-Russian skazka a poor man catches a fish and takes it as a present to his rich brother, who says, "A splendid fish! thank you, brother, thank you!" but evinces no other sign of gratitude.

Who acts: Russian poor man, rich brother · What happens: catch, take, say, thank, evince, sign · To what, where: fish, you, other sign, gratitude · 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 (Russian poor man, rich brother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	9 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Russian	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Little	punct
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
6	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	9 man	nsubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catches	nsubj
10	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catches	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 takes	cc
14	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 catches	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 takes	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 present	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 present	det
18	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 takes	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 brother	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brother	nmod:poss
21	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brother	amod
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 takes	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 says	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 says	nsubj
25	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 brother	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fish	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 fish	punct
28	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fish	det
29	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fish	amod
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 takes	parataxis
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 thank	punct
32	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fish	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 thank	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 brother	punct
35	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fish	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thank	punct
37	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 catches	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 thank	obj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 thank	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 thank	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 evinces	cc
42	evinces	evince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 catches	conj
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 sign	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sign	amod
45	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 evinces	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 gratitude	case
47	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sign	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 catches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	catch	present	a Russian poor man	a fish			tree rules
2	take	present	a Russian poor man not said here	fish		as a present; to man's rich brother	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brother=be' clause=Attribute
3	say speech: express	present	man's rich brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	a Russian poor man not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	evince	present	a Russian poor man not said here	no other sign of gratitude			tree rules
7	sign			gratitude			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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