Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 96

"Now then," says he, "will you marry me now?"

Who acts: you · What happens: say, marry · To what, where: stepsister, me · 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 (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	_	6 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 says	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 says	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marry	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 marry	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 marry	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 marry	nsubj
12	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 marry	obj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 marry	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present		stepsister			now; then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	marry in a quote	future	you	me			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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