Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 13
I'll serve thee for a whole year," said he, "if thou wilt give me that wild colt."
Who acts: I, God · What happens: serve, say, give · To what, where: thee, wild colt, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, God), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 serve | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 serve | aux |
| 3 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 serve | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serve | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 serve | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 he | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 colt | mark |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 colt | amod |
| 22 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 serve | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | I | thee | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | God | wild colt | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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