Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 48

Give me to drink," said he, "and I would fain eat something also."

Who acts: you, body, I · What happens: give, drink, say, fain, eat · To what, where: me, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, body, I), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 drink	mark
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fain	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fain	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fain	aux
14	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fain	xcomp
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 eat	obj
17	also	also	ADV	_	15 eat	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here		me	tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	body			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	fain	would	I			tree rules
5	eat	infinitive	I not said here	something		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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