Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 119
They will give thee a thousand roubles for me, only sell me without a halter."
Who acts: nobles · What happens: give, sell · To what, where: thousand roubles, thee, me
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 (nobles), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thousand | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 roubles | nummod |
| 7 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sell | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 sell | advmod |
| 12 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sell | iobj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 halter | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 halter | det |
| 16 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | nobles = noble | thousand roubles | thee | for me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient rouble=Theme for i=Asset | ||
| 2 | sell | infinitive | nobles = noble not said here | me | without a halter | 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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