Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 15

"What horns are you talking about, Simpleton?"

Who acts: horns · What happens: talk about · To what, where: Simpleton

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horns), 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 talking	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 talking	obj
3	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talking	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 talking	nsubj
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	6 talking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Simpleton	punct
9	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 talking	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk about in a quote	present · progressive	horns	Simpleton					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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