Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 85

"What an idea!" said his rich brother: "you haven't a thing to eat, and yet you ask people to spend your name-day with you!"

Who acts: idea, you · What happens: idea, say, not thing, eat, ask, spend · To what, where: people · 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 (idea, 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 idea	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 idea	nsubj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 idea	det
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 idea	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 idea	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 thing	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 thing	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thing	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ask	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ask	cc
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 ask	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ask	nsubj
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ask	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 spend	mark
27	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	xcomp
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 day	nmod:poss
29	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 day	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 name	punct
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spend	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 spend	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	idea in a quote						tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	a idea				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not thing in a quote	present	you				tree rules
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	a idea not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	you	people	yet		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
6	spend not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		day	with you	vn consume-66-1 «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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