Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 98

"There now, the old hunks!" they say. "

Who acts: old hunks · What happens: say · 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 hunks), 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	_	11 say	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 say	expl
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunks	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hunks	amod
7	hunks	hunks	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hunks	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 hunks	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the old hunks			there	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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