Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 157

Well, as I went along I became exceedingly wretched, and in my misery I said: 'If the devil offered me a bride, I'd take even her!'"

Who acts: I, devil · What happens: go along, become, say, offer, take · To what, where: misery, bride, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, devil), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
9	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	10 wretched	advmod
10	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 misery	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 misery	nmod:poss
15	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 offered	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 offered	punct
20	If	if	SCONJ	_	23 offered	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 devil	det
22	devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 offered	nsubj
23	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 offered	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bride	det
26	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 offered	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 take	nsubj
29	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 take	aux
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 offered	parataxis
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 her	advmod
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 take	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go along	past	I				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	I				wretched property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	I			my misery		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in misery=Manner
4	offer a condition, not said to happen	past	the devil	a bride	me			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal bride=Theme
5	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.

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