Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 21

I'll give you my daughter and lots of money with her."--"How is it possible for me to marry?" replied the man; "as soon as ever I sit down on the bridal bench, the Iron Wolf will come and eat me up."

Who acts: I, General, me, Iron Wolf · What happens: give, be, marry, reply, sit down, come · To what, where: daughter, you, man, bridal bench, me · 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, General, me, Iron Wolf), 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 give	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lots	cc
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 daughter	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 money	case
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lots	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 money	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 possible	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 possible	punct
17	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 possible	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 possible	cop
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 possible	nsubj
20	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 replied	ccomp
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 marry	mark
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 marry	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 possible	advcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 possible	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 possible	punct
27	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 replied	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sit	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 soon	punct
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 soon	advmod
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 sit	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 ever	case
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 soon	obl
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 sit	nsubj
37	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 sit	compound:prt
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 bench	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bench	det
41	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bench	amod
42	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sit	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 come	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Wolf	det
45	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Wolf	compound
46	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 come	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 come	aux
48	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 sit	conj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 eat	cc
50	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 come	conj
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 eat	obj
52	up	up	ADP	_	50 eat	compound:prt
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	my daughter and lots of money with daughter	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme
2	is	present	General				possible property	tree rules
3	marry	to-infinitive	me					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	the General = general not said here	the man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
5	sit down	present	I			the bridal bench	soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
6	come	future	the Iron Wolf					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	eat up	infinitive	the Iron Wolf not said here	me				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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