Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 146

"Very good," said Alenka; "it won't take long to teach you."

Who acts: Alenka, it · What happens: say, not take, teach · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alenka, it), 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	_	3 good	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Alenka	Alenka	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 take	advmod
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 take	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 teach	mark
16	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 take	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 teach	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Alenka			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not take in a quote	future	it		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	teach speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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