Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 102
When you go to the merchant's he will offer you brandy; don't you drink much--drink only a moderate allowance.
Who acts: you, grandfather · What happens: go, offer, not drink, drink · To what, where: brandy, you, moderate allowance
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (you, grandfather), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drink | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 offer | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 merchant | case |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 offer | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 offer | aux |
| 10 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 offer | iobj |
| 12 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offer | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 drink | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 drink | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 drink | nsubj |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 drink | advmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 drink | punct |
| 20 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 drink | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 allowance | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 allowance | det |
| 23 | moderate | moderate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 allowance | amod |
| 24 | allowance | allowance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drink | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | offer | future | grandfather | brandy | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal brandy=Theme | |||
| 3 | not drink | infinitive · do-support | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | you not said here | a moderate allowance | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent allowance=Patient |
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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