The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 125

‘Now,’ says he, ‘this time I will forgive you, in return for your kindness in giving me water to drink.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, forgive, give, drink · To what, where: Ivan, you, water, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgive	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 forgive	punct
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgive	obl:unmarked
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 forgive	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 forgive	aux
13	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 forgive	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 return	case
17	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgive	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 kindness	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 kindness	nmod:poss
20	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	nmod
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 giving	mark
22	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 forgive	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 giving	iobj
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 giving	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 drink	mark
26	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 water	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		Ivan		now	tree rules
2	forgive	future	I	you		time	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	give	gerund	I not said here	water	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient water=Theme
4	drink	to-infinitive	I not said here	water not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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