Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 51

"An old man has sent me here, and told me to ask you which of the two I shall wish for--riches or a good wife?"

Who acts: I · What happens: send, tell, ask, wish · To what, where: old man, me, you · 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 (I), 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 sent	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sent	obj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sent	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ask	mark
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 ask	iobj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 wish	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 two	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 two	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 wish	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wish	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wish	aux
22	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ask	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 riches	case
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 riches	punct
25	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wish	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 wife	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wife	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wife	amod
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 riches	conj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a old man		here		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive			you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wish in a quote	shall	I				of the two; for riches or a good wife	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=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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