Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 166

"That's a puzzling job!" said the youth; "give me till to-morrow morning to think about it, grandfather!"

Who acts: That, puzzling job · What happens: be, say, give, think · To what, where: puzzling job, youth, grandfather · 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 (That, puzzling job), 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 job	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 job	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 job	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 job	det
5	puzzling	puzzling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 job	amod
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 job	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 job	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	till	till	ADP	_	20 morning	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 morning	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 morning	compound
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	advcl
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 think	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grandfather	punct
26	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 think	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a puzzling job				tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	a puzzling job	the youth				tree rules
3	give in a quote	infinitive			a puzzling job = job	morning		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive		grandfather			about job	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

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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