Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 113
The presents he's made are nothing to what he'll give them."
Who acts: presents, effect · What happens: make, be, give · To what, where: effect, nothing, presents
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 (presents, effect), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 presents | det |
| 2 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 presents | acl:relcl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nothing | cop |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 give | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | effect | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the presents | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | future | effect | presents = present | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to what=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/113/