Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 9

"Wait a bit!" thinks Ivan, and then continues aloud, "Very good, I'll take you; but only on condition that you bring home my mill-stones for me."

Who acts: Ivan, you · What happens: wait, think, continue, take, bring · To what, where: bit, you, condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, 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	_	2 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thinks	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wait	obl:unmarked
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 continues	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 continues	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 continues	advmod
12	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinks	conj
13	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	12 continues	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
16	Very	very	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 continues	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 good	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 take	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 condition	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 condition	cc
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 condition	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 condition	case
27	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	parataxis
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 bring	obj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 bring	nsubj
30	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 condition	acl:relcl
31	home	home	ADV	_	30 bring	advmod
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stones	nmod:poss
33	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stones	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 mill	punct
35	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bring	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 bring	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 condition	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 condition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	infinitive		a bit				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	Ivan					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	continue	present	Ivan not said here			then	aloud property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take in a quote	future	Ivan		you			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
5	bring in a quote	present	you	condition			for Ivan; home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination stone=Theme

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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