Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 188

They nourished us, you see, when we were poor; but now, when they're no longer necessary to us, we've quite forgotten them!"

Who acts: thanks, you, we · What happens: nourish, see, be, forget · To what, where: us, thanks

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 (thanks, you, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nourished	nsubj
2	nourished	nourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 nourished	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 nourished	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poor	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 poor	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 poor	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 poor	cop
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 see	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 necessary	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 necessary	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 necessary	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 necessary	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 necessary	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 necessary	nsubj
18	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 necessary	cop
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 longer	advmod
20	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 necessary	advmod
21	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nourished	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 necessary	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 forgotten	punct
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 forgotten	nsubj
26	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 forgotten	aux
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 forgotten	advmod
28	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 nourished	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 forgotten	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 forgotten	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 nourished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	nourish	past	thanks	us				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
2	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	we				poor property	tree rules
4	is	present	thanks		us	now	long, necessary property	tree rules
5	forget	present · perfect	we	thanks				tree rules

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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