Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 2

I have now served long enough, and would fain have a little place in the wide world all to myself."--"Good!" said the parson. "

Who acts: I, fain, parson · What happens: serve, have, say · To what, where: little place, myself, wide world, parson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fain, parson), 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	4 served	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 served	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 served	advmod
4	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 served	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 served	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fain	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fain	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fain	aux
10	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 served	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
17	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 world	amod
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	nmod
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 myself	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 myself	case
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 have	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Good	punct
26	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 said	ccomp
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 Good	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Good	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 served	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 parson	det
31	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	present · perfect	I				now	enough, long property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	fain	a little place	myself	the wide world			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	parson not said here	the parson					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent parson=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: «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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