Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 158
"Ask away; only it isn't every question that brings good. '
Who acts: you, meat, question · What happens: ask away, not be, bring · To what, where: question
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 (you, meat, question), 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 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Ask | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 question | punct |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 question | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 question | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 question | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 question | advmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 question | det |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ask | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 brings | nsubj |
| 12 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 question | acl:relcl |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brings | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask away speech: ask in a quote | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | meat | every question | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present | every question | good property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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