Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 191
"Where did you get such a lot, Simpleton?" said they.
Who acts: you, simpletons · What happens: get, say · To what, where: lot · 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 (you, simpletons), 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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 lot | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lot | det |
| 8 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Simpleton | punct |
| 10 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lot | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | such lot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | simpletons = simpleton | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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