Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 79
If it had only given me to eat and to drink, I should not have come to thee again."
Who acts: I · What happens: give, eat, drink, not come · To what, where: evil, me, thee
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 given | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 given | advmod |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 come | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drink | mark |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 eat | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 thee | case |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 come | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | evil | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not come | should · perfect | I | thee | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location |
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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