Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 117
"If you like," says the Cossack, "I'll show you Death!
Who acts: you, Cossack · What happens: like, say, show · To what, where: Death, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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, Cossack), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 like | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cossack | det |
| 9 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 show | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | the Cossack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | future | the Cossack = cossack | Death | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient death=Topic |
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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