Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 196
"Now mind, Simpleton," say the sensible brothers, "don't tell anyone that we've such a lot of gold."
Who acts: mind · What happens: say, not tell · To what, where: sensible brothers, anyone · 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 (mind), 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 mind | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Simpleton | punct |
| 5 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 10 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brothers | amod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tell | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tell | advmod |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 say | conj |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 tell | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 've | obj |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 've | nsubj |
| 20 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 lot | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lot | det |
| 23 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | mind | the sensible brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | mind not said here | anyone | such lot of gold obl:unmarked | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
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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