Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 64

"Don't go bragging like that!" says a rich merchant--"why she wouldn't even so much as look at you," and offers to stake all that he is worth on the truth of his assertion.

Who acts: rich merchant, Anastasia, merchant · What happens: not go, brag, say, look, offer, stake · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich merchant, Anastasia, merchant), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
5	bragging	brag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 go	xcomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bragging	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 merchant	det
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 merchant	amod
13	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 look	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 look	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 look	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 much	advmod
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	24 look	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 merchant	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 look	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 offers	cc
30	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 stake	mark
32	stake	stake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 offers	xcomp
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 worth	det:predet
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 worth	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 worth	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 worth	cop
37	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stake	ccomp
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 truth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 truth	det
40	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 worth	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 assertion	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 assertion	nmod:poss
43	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 truth	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	infinitive · do-support				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	brag speech: other in a quote	gerund			like that	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	present	a rich merchant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	would	Anastasia		at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
5	offer	present	a rich merchant not said here			tree rules
6	stake not said to happen	to-infinitive	a rich merchant not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	merchant	the truth of merchant's assertion	worth property	tree rules
8	assert		merchant			nom assertion «communication transitive»: poss=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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