Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 5

"What a fool you are!" says she, "people sing because they've made a good meal and had lots to drink; but why ever should you dream of singing?"

Who acts: wife, people, you · What happens: fool, say, sing, make, have, drink · To what, where: good meal, lots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, people, you), 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 fool	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fool	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 are	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	acl:relcl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sing	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 she	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 she	punct
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sing	nsubj
14	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 sing	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 meal	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meal	amod
21	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	conj
24	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 drink	mark
26	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lots	acl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 dream	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 dream	cc
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 dream	advmod
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 dream	advmod
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 dream	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 dream	nsubj
33	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	parataxis
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 singing	mark
35	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 dream	advcl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fool in a quote					tree rules
2	say speech: express	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express in a quote	present	wife			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	make in a quote	present · perfect	people	a good meal		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product
5	have in a quote	past	people not said here	lots		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
6	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	people not said here	lots not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	dream in a quote	should	you		ever	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
8	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund	you not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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