Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 6

"What do you want him for?" said the Simpleton, when he was asked. "

Who acts: you, Simpleton · What happens: want, say, ask · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Simpleton), 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	_	5 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	5 want	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Simpleton	det
12	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 asked	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	aux:pass
17	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 Simpleton	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want in a quote	present · do-support	you	man	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute
2	say speech: ask	past	the Simpleton		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past · passive		man	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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