Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 126

"Didn't I tell you that you should not see Marya Morevna any more than your own ears?"

Who acts: steed, you · What happens: not tell, not see · To what, where: you, Marya · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steed, you), 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 tell	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	advcl
12	Marya	Marya	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
13	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Marya	flat
14	any	any	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 see	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	19 ears	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ears	amod
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 more	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	the steed = steed		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	not see in a quote	should	you	Marya					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marya=Stimulus

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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