Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 117
"Why don't you pay up for that pauper?
Who acts: you · What happens: not pay up
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pay | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 pay | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pay | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pay | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | nsubj |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pay | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 pauper | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 pauper | det |
| 10 | pauper | pauper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pay | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay up in a quote | present · do-support | you | for that pauper | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for pauper=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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