Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 76
"Do give it back to me, good man!" begs the corpse.
Who acts: corpse · What happens: give back, beg · To what, where: hatchet, corpse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begs | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 give | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 13 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 corpse | det |
| 15 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 begs | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back in a quote | infinitive · do-support | hatchet | the corpse = corpse | good man obl | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | the corpse | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
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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