Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 46
"No, no, you thief!" she would reply, "I shall go, and do you follow after me!"
Who acts: you, thief · What happens: thief, reply, go, follow · 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 (you, thief), 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 | _ | 7 thief | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 thief | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thief | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 thief | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thief | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 thief | nsubj |
| 7 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reply | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 thief | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thief | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reply | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 reply | aux |
| 12 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reply | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 follow | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 follow | cc |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 follow | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 follow | nsubj |
| 22 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reply | parataxis |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 follow | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 reply | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thief in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | would | thief | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | shall | thief | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | present · do-support | you | after thief | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after i=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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