Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 9

"Very good; I will pay them respect."

Who acts: fool · What happens: pay, respect · To what, where: boots

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 (fool), 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	_	3 good	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 pay	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pay	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 good	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pay	obj
9	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pay	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay in a quote	future	the fool = fool	boots = boot					tree rules
2	respect in a quote	infinitive	the fool = fool not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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