Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 132

"Good-day, granny!" says she.

What happens: say · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 day	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 granny	punct
6	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		matter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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