Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 130
“If you will not give her to me willy, I will take her nilly!” he said.
Who acts: you, monster · What happens: not give, take, say · To what, where: daughter, nilly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, monster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obl |
| 10 | willy | willy | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nilly | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nilly | nilly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | daughter | to monster; willy property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | future | monster | daughter's nilly | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nilly=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | monster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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