Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 145
Methinks if the devil himself would give me a bride, I'd take even her!"
Who acts: Methinks, I · What happens: give, take · To what, where: bride, me
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Methinks, I), 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 | Methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | nsubj |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 devil | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 4 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Methinks | nmod |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 devil | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | conj |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 her | advmod |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | Methinks the devil man | a bride | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bride=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | would | I | bride | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/145/