Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 9

"Give my compliments to the brook Chorny, and say to him about the mill: there used not to be one, and so there shall not be one!"

Who acts: you, my · What happens: give, say, use, not be, compliment · To what, where: compliments, brook, Chorny, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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, my), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 compliments	nmod:poss
4	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Give	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 brook	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brook	det
7	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obl
8	Chorny	Chorny	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 brook	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	obl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 mill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mill	det
16	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 used	advmod
19	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Give	parataxis
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 one	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	23 one	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 one	cop
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 used	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 there	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 there	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 there	advmod
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 used	conj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 one	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 one	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 one	cop
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 there	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my compliments	the brook			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent compliment=Theme to brook=Recipient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		Chorny		about the mill	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	use in a quote	participle				there		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a in a quote	to-infinitive		one				tree rules
5	not is a in a quote	shall		one				tree rules
6	compliment in a quote		my					nom compliment «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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