Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 14

If they gave him anything to eat, he ate it; and if they didn't give him anything to eat, he did without.

Who acts: cinders, Heaven · What happens: give, eat, not give, do · To what, where: anything, Heaven, water

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 (cinders, Heaven), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 gave	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ate	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 gave	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 anything	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 give	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 give	advmod
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ate	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 give	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 anything	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 did	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 did	nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ate	conj
26	without	without	ADP	_	25 did	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give a condition, not said to happen	past	cinders = cinder	anything	Heaven	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	cinders = cinder not said here	anything not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past	Heaven	water		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	not give a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	cinders = cinder	anything	Heaven	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	cinders = cinder not said here	anything not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	past	Heaven			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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