Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 59
"Be so good as to lend me a cart and a pair of oxen for a short time," says he. "
What happens: be, lend, say · To what, where: cart, me, peasant · 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: 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 | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 says | ccomp |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 lend | mark |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lend | mark |
| 7 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | csubj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lend | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cart | det |
| 10 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lend | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pair | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pair | det |
| 13 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cart | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oxen | case |
| 15 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pair | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lend | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 says | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lend in a quote | to-infinitive | a cart and a pair of oxen | me | time | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient cart=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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