Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 164

Next morning he said to his father and mother, "Please allow me to get married.

Who acts: seigneur · What happens: say, allow, marry · To what, where: father, seigneur · 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 (seigneur), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 allow	punct
12	Please	please	INTJ	_	13 allow	discourse
13	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 allow	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 married	mark
16	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 married	aux:pass
17	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 allow	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	seigneur	seigneur's father and mother	morning	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	allow in a quote	infinitive		seigneur		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	marry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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