Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 82
"What do _you_ mean?" said the peasant, "why I didn't come here to turn you out.
Who acts: you, peasant · What happens: mean, say, not come, turn out · 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 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, peasant), 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 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mean | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | discourse |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peasant | det |
| 12 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 come | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 turn | mark |
| 22 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 turn | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 turn | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | past · do-support | the peasant = peasant | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn out in a quote | to-infinitive | the peasant = peasant not said here | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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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