Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 62

The King reflected awhile and said, "How can you be of use to me?" and again he was going to shoot.

Who acts: King, you · What happens: reflect, say, be, go, shoot · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reflected	nsubj
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	3 reflected	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reflected	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 can	advmod
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 use	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 use	nsubj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 use	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 use	case
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 use	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
20	again	again	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 shoot	mark
25	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	the King			awhile property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	the King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	can	you	the King = king		of use	tree rules
4	go	past · progressive	King		again		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	shoot	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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