Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 157

If anyone asks who made the ring, say you made it yourself; don't say a word about me."

Who acts: anyone, you · What happens: ask, make, say, not say · To what, where: ring, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (anyone, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 asks	mark
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	advcl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 made	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 word	det
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	anyone			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past		the ring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Product
3	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	past	you	ring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary yourself=Product
5	not say speech: assert	infinitive · do-support		a word	about me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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