Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 66

So he returns and states the Gypsy's request, and obtains the reply that "the Gypsy's business is to cheat and to swear falsely."

Who acts: George, business, Gypsy · What happens: return, state, obtain, be, swear, request · To what, where: request, reply · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (George, business, Gypsy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 returns	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returns	nsubj
3	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 states	cc
5	states	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 returns	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Gypsy	det
7	Gypsy	Gypsy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 request	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Gypsy	case
9	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 states	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obtains	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 obtains	cc
12	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 returns	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reply	det
14	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obtains	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 cheat	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 cheat	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Gypsy	det
18	Gypsy	Gypsy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 business	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Gypsy	case
20	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cheat	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 cheat	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cheat	mark
23	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 reply	acl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 swear	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 swear	mark
26	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cheat	conj
27	falsely	falsely	ADV	_	26 swear	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returns	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 returns	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	present	George			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	state speech: other	present	George not said here	the Gypsy's request		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent request=Topic
3	obtain	present	George not said here	the reply		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the Gypsy's business	the reply not said here	cheat property	tree rules
5	swear in a quote	to-infinitive	the Gypsy's business not said here		falsely property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	request		the Gypsy			nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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