Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 101
Say a hundred roubles!"--"Nay!"--"Then take thy money and give us the dog."
Who acts: you · What happens: say, take, give · To what, where: hundred roubles, money, dog, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 roubles | nummod |
| 4 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Say | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 roubles | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 roubles | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nay | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nay | punct |
| 9 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 1 Say | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nay | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nay | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 take | advmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 money | nmod:poss |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | hundred roubles | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme nay=Manner | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | thy money | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | the dog | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient dog=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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