Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 57

"Take what you like, even were it half of what we've got!"

Who acts: you, help, we · What happens: take, like, be, get · To what, where: half

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, help, we), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Take	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 half	advmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 half	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 half	nsubj
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 Take	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 half	nmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 what	acl:relcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	like in a quote	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a in a quote	past	help	half	tree rules
4	get in a quote	present · perfect	we		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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