Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 121

"Listen, mother," says he; "we've a goat, haven't we?"

Who acts: we · What happens: listen, say, have · To what, where: mother, way, goat, we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Listen	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	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	_	12 've	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 've	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 've	nsubj
12	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 goat	det
14	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 've	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 've	conj
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 we	advmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive		mother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	present		way	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	we	a goat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
4	have in a quote	present	we not said here	we	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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