Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 107

"What nonsense are you talking, you little fool! as if one could marry a snake!"

Who acts: nonsense, you, one · What happens: talk, fool, marry · To what, where: snake

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (nonsense, you, one), 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	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fool	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 fool	nsubj
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fool	amod
10	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talking	appos
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 fool	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 marry	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 marry	mark
14	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 marry	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 marry	aux
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 talking	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 snake	det
18	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	talk in a quote	present · progressive	nonsense		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	fool in a quote		you		tree rules
3	marry in a quote	could	one	a snake	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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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