Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 57

Thou askest me of what race, of what family I am," says the fair maiden of a song preserved in the Tambof Government--

Who acts: Thou · What happens: ask, be, say, preserve · To what, where: me, family, fair maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 askest	nsubj
2	askest	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 says	parataxis
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 askest	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 race	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 race	nsubj
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 me	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 askest	parataxis
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 am	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 family	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 askest	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maiden	det
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maiden	amod
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 song	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 song	det
21	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maiden	nmod
22	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 maiden	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 Government	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Government	det
25	Tambof	Tambof	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Government	compound
26	Government	Government	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 preserved	obl:agent
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Thou		me	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	present		family		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present		the fair maiden of a song		tree rules
4	preserve in a quote	participle		the fair maiden of a song not said here		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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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