Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 64

"How could you think of such a thing, kind friend!"

Who acts: you · What happens: think

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 (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	_	5 think	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 think	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 thing	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 thing	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 friend	punct
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	appos
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	could	you					of such thing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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