Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 171
"Why don't you go on asking?" said the Baba Yaga.
Who acts: you, Baba Yaga · What happens: not go, ask, say · 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 (you, Baba Yaga), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 go | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 asking | mark |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 go | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Yaga | det |
| 13 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yaga | compound |
| 14 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the Baba Yaga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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