Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 19
"Master merchant, sell me that beastie," says the landlord.
Who acts: Master merchant, landlord · What happens: sell, say · To what, where: landlord · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master merchant, landlord), 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 | _ | 3 merchant | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sell | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 merchant | punct |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sell | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 says | mark |
| 8 | beastie | beastie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beastie | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 beastie | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sell | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 landlord | det |
| 13 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | infinitive | Master merchant | the landlord = landlord | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the landlord | 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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