Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 107

"Heigh, old man!" say they, "haven't you seen a youth and a maiden pass by?"

Who acts: Heigh, pursuers · What happens: say, not see · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heigh, pursuers), 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	_	2 Heigh	punct
2	Heigh	Heigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Heigh	appos
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seen	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 say	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pass	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pass	det
20	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pass	amod
21	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 youth	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	15 seen	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Heigh						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see in a quote	present · perfect	pursuers = pursuer	a youth and a maiden pass					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=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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