Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 100

"Well, maiden!" says he, "will you marry me now?"

Who acts: maiden, cock · What happens: say, marry · To what, where: maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, cock), 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 maiden	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 maiden	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 maiden	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 maiden	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marry	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 marry	punct
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 marry	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 marry	nsubj
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 marry	obj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 marry	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	maiden						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry in a quote	future	cock	maiden			now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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