Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 25
I'll give it thee for standing me surety so scurvily," said he.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: give, stand, say · To what, where: puddle, thee, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 give | iobj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 standing | mark |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 standing | obj |
| 9 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 scurvily | advmod |
| 11 | scurvily | scurvily | ADV | _ | 7 standing | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | puddle | thee | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | man not said here | me | scurvily property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme surety=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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