Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 81

"Things will be much better like that," said the peasant: "if I were to take you home with me, O Woeful Woe, sooner or later you'd be sure to drink away all this money, too!"

Who acts: Things, better, you · What happens: be, say, take, drink away · To what, where: peasant, you, money · 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 (Things, better, you), 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 better	punct
2	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 better	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 said	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 better	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peasant	det
13	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 take	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
19	to	to	PART	_	20 take	mark
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 take	obj
22	home	home	ADV	_	20 take	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Woe	punct
26	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	28 Woe	case
27	Woeful	woeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Woe	amod
28	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sure	punct
30	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 sure	advmod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 later	cc
32	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 sooner	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 sure	nsubj
34	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 sure	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 sure	cop
36	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 take	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 drink	mark
38	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 sure	xcomp
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 drink	advmod
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 money	det:predet
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 money	det
42	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drink	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 too	punct
44	too	too	ADV	_	20 take	advmod
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	Things		like that; good property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	better	the peasant		tree rules
3	take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	better = good	you	with better = good; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme woe=Destination
4	is in a quote	would	you		soon, sure property	tree rules
5	drink away in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	all money	away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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