Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 173

"You may say what you like," says the host, "but a handsomer wife than mine does not exist in the whole world!"

Who acts: You, host · What happens: say, like, not exist · To what, where: whole world · 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 (You, host), 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 say	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 host	det
12	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exist	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 host	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 host	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 wife	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wife	det
17	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 wife	amod
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 host	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 mine	case
20	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 exist	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 exist	advmod
23	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 world	amod
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exist	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 exist	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 exist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	may	You		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	like in a quote	present	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: express	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not exist in a quote	present · do-support	the host but a handsomer wife than mine	the whole world	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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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