Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 140

Morfei, give them to eat!" he cried, and immediately excellent viands appeared, with which the mariners were so pleased that they gave the general a magic volume in exchange for his cook--who, however, did not stay with them but secretly followed his master.

Who acts: Morfei, general, excellent viands, mariners, magic volume · What happens: give, eat, cry, appear, be, not stay · To what, where: stories, general, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morfei, general, excellent viands, mariners), 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	Morfei	Morfei	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 give	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Morfei	punct
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 appeared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 appeared	cc
13	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	14 excellent	advmod
14	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 viands	amod
15	viands	viand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 appeared	nsubj
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pleased	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 pleased	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mariners	det
21	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pleased	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pleased	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 pleased	advmod
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 appeared	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 gave	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pleased	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 general	det
29	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gave	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 volume	det
31	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 volume	amod
32	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 exchange	case
34	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 volume	nmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 cook	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 cook	nmod:poss
37	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 volume	nmod
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 stay	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 stay	nsubj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 who	punct
41	however	however	ADV	_	45 stay	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 however	punct
43	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 stay	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 stay	advmod
45	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 volume	parataxis
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 stay	obl
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 followed	cc
49	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	50 followed	advmod
50	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 stay	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 master	nmod:poss
52	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 followed	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive	Morfei		stories = story		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	Morfei not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	general				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	appear in a quote	past	excellent viands				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is in a quote	past	the mariners			pleased property	tree rules
6	give in a quote	past	mariners = mariner	the general			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent general=Recipient volume=Theme
7	not stay in a quote	past · do-support	a magic volume			with mariners = mariner; however property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
8	follow in a quote	past	a magic volume not said here	general's master		secretly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=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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