Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 136
Give us back our golden, sky-blue mill!"
Who acts: you · What happens: give back · To what, where: golden blue mill, us
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | back | back | ADP | _ | 1 Give | compound:prt |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mill | nmod:poss |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mill | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 golden | punct |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blue | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sky | punct |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mill | amod |
| 10 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | imperative | you not said here | our golden blue mill | us | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient mill=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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