Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 124
"Don't go talking nonsense, Mashka; as if suitors[282] generally turned up in the forenoon.
Who acts: you, suitors · What happens: not go, talk, turn up · To what, where: nonsense, forenoon
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, suitors), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 go | xcomp |
| 6 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mashka | punct |
| 8 | Mashka | Mashka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nonsense | appos |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 suitors | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 suitors | case |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 suitors | mark |
| 12 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 282 | punct |
| 14 | 282 | 282 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 suitors | appos |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 282 | punct |
| 16 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 turned | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 forenoon | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forenoon | det |
| 21 | forenoon | forenoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | gerund | you not said here | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn up in a quote | participle | suitors | the forenoon | generally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forenoon=Location |
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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