Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 209

But later on in the evening the eldest brother said to the second one:--

Who acts: eldest brother · What happens: say · To what, where: second one · 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 (eldest brother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
2	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 said	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 later	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 later	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brother	det
8	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 one	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the eldest brother		the second one			late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=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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