Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 17
"Glory to God! now I will cook this pike, and will eat it all myself; I won't give a bit of it to my sisters-in-law.
Who acts: Glory, wives · What happens: cook, eat, not give · To what, where: pike, bit, sisters
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 (Glory, wives), 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 Glory | punct |
| 2 | Glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cook | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 God | case |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Glory | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Glory | punct |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cook | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cook | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cook | aux |
| 9 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 pike | det |
| 11 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cook | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cook | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 it | det |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 eat | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 21 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 give | advmod |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cook | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bit | det |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bit | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sisters | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 give | obl |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 law | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 law | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 in | punct |
| 34 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sisters | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook in a quote | future | Glory to God | this pike | now | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pike=Patient | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | future | Glory to God not said here | pike | myself obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | not give in a quote | future | FOOL's brothers's wives = wife | a bit of pike | my sisters and law | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to sister=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.
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