Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 90

"You were distinctly told, you old lout, that you were not to come here without money; and now you've slunk back again."

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, lout, not come, slink back · To what, where: You · 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 (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	_	5 told	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
4	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lout	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 lout	nsubj
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lout	amod
9	lout	lout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 come	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	conj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 money	case
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 slunk	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slunk	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 slunk	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 slunk	nsubj
24	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 slunk	aux
25	slunk	slink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 slunk	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 slunk	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · passive		You			distinctly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	lout in a quote		you					tree rules
3	not come in a quote	past	you		here		without money	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	slink back in a quote	present · perfect	you			now; again		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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