Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 157

"I didn't dare," answered Vasilissa; "but if you give me leave, I should like to ask you about something."

Who acts: Vasilissa, you, Baba · What happens: not dare, answer, give, leave, like, ask · To what, where: Baba, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa, you, Baba), 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 dare	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dare	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dare	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dare	advmod
5	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dare	parataxis
9	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 like	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 give	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
15	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 like	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 give	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dare	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 like	xcomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 ask	iobj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 something	case
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 ask	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dare	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not dare in a quote	past · do-support	Vasilissa			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	Vasilissa			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the Baba = baba		tree rules
4	leave in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	like in a quote	should	the Baba = baba			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Baba = baba not said here	you	about something	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about something=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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