Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 16

He says he has shaved it, his wife declares he has only cut it off.

Who acts: rope, wife · What happens: say, shave, declare, cut off · To what, where: quarrel, rope · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shaved	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shaved	aux
5	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shaved	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declares	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declares	nsubj
10	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cut	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 cut	advmod
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 declares	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cut	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	rope		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shave	present · perfect	rope	quarrel	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	declare speech: other	present	rope's wife		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	cut off	present · perfect · passive		rope	tree rules

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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