Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 196

"Tell me; were you in the church?"

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: you, Fiend, church · 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), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 you	cop
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	you	the Fiend = fiend	the church			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient you=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past		you					tree rules

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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