Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 168

"Ah, brother! how can I? you know very well you'll be having merchants coming to you in boots and pelisses, but I have to go about in bast shoes and a miserable old grey caftan."

Who acts: poor man, you, merchants · What happens: know, have, come, go about · To what, where: merchants, you, boots, bast shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, you, merchants), 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	_	4 brother	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 brother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 know	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 I	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	advcl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 having	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 having	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 having	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 having	aux
17	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 know	ccomp
18	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 having	obj
19	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 merchants	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 coming	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 boots	case
23	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 coming	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pelisses	cc
25	pelisses	pelisse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 boots	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 have	xcomp
32	about	about	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 shoes	case
34	bast	bast	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shoes	compound
35	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 go	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 caftan	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 caftan	det
38	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 caftan	amod
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 caftan	amod
40	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 caftan	amod
41	caftan	caftan	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shoes	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	can	the poor man = man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have in a quote	future · progressive	you	merchants			well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Patient
3	come in a quote	gerund	merchants not said here		you	boots and pelisses		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
4	have in a quote	present	the poor man = man					tree rules
5	go about in a quote	to-infinitive	the poor man = man not said here			bast shoes and a miserable old grey caftan	about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: 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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