--- title: “But, fair maiden, you have given me nothing to eat or drink, and yo… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “But, fair maiden, you have given me nothing to eat or drink, and you ask my news!” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/70/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/) / 70 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 70 “But, fair maiden, you have given me nothing to eat or drink, and you ask my news!” **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, eat, drink, ask · **To what, where:** fair maiden, news This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:27:70 # text = “But, fair maiden, you have given me nothing to eat or drink, and you ask my news!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | fair maiden | | | | you *nsubj*; me *obj*; nothing *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | you | my news | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/71/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/27/)