Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 202

"They're telling lies! we're carrying money; here, just take a look at it."

Who acts: simpletons, we · What happens: tell, carry, take · To what, where: lies, money, look · 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 (simpletons, we), 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	_	4 telling	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telling	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	aux
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 telling	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 carrying	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 carrying	aux
9	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 telling	ccomp
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carrying	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 telling	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 telling	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 look	det
17	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	simpletons = simpleton	lies	here	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient clause=Topic
2	carry in a quote	present · progressive	we	money		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	take in a quote	infinitive	simpletons = simpleton not said here	a look	look	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at it=Asset

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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