Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 158
"Ah, brother!" said the youth, "why didn't you wake me?
Who acts: brother, you · What happens: say, not wake · To what, where: youth, brother · 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 (brother, you), 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 brother | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wake | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wake | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 wake | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wake | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wake | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wake | nsubj |
| 16 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wake | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | brother | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not wake in a quote | past · do-support | you | brother | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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