Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 57

No, no!" says the old man, "you can't wail."

Who acts: old man, you · What happens: say, not wail · 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 (old man, 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 says	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 no	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 no	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wail	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 wail	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 wail	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wail	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 wail	advmod
15	wail	wail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 wail	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 wail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the old man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not wail	can	you						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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