Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 26

"Marusia, sweetheart!" says he, "would you like me to marry you?"

Who acts: Marusia, you · What happens: say, like, marry · To what, where: festival, Marusia, you · 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 (Marusia, 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 Marusia	punct
2	Marusia	Marusia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sweetheart	punct
4	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Marusia	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Marusia	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Marusia	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 like	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 marry	mark
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 marry	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Marusia	festival	tree rules
2	like in a quote	would	you	Marusia	tree rules
3	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	you	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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