Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 4

"Yes, we'll sell it you."

Who acts: we · What happens: sell · To what, where: hold, you

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 (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	_	6 sell	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sell	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sell	aux
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sell	iobj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell in a quote	future	we	hold	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme

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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