Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 1
"Do me a service, and I will show thee a place where the fish swarm."
Who acts: you, I, fish · What happens: do, show, swarm · To what, where: service, me, place, thee
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, fish), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Do | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 service | det |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 show | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 show | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 show | aux |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Do | conj |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 show | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 swarm | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swarm | nsubj |
| 17 | swarm | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a service | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show in a quote | future | I | a place | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient place=Topic | |||
| 3 | swarm in a quote | present | the fish | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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