Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 136

"They are dead, granny," replied the girl, and then told her all that had happened.

Who acts: dances, girl, that · What happens: be, reply, tell, happen · To what, where: mother · 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: who acts (dances, girl, that), 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 dead	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replied	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 granny	punct
6	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 told	advmod
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 happened	det:predet
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 happened	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	aux
20	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 told	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	dances = dance			dead property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the girl				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the girl not said here	mother	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect	that				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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