Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 40

[241] _Spasibo_ is the word in popular use as an expression of thanks, and it now means nothing more than "thank you!"

Who acts: thanks · What happens: be, mean, thank · To what, where: word, popular use, nothing, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks), 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	_	2 241	punct
2	241	241	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 241	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Spasibo	punct
5	Spasibo	Spasibo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 241	nmod:unmarked
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 word	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 word	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 241	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 use	case
11	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 use	amod
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	nmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 expression	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 expression	det
15	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 thanks	case
17	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 expression	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 means	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 means	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 means	nsubj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 means	advmod
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 word	parataxis
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 means	obj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 nothing	amod
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 thank	mark
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 thank	punct
27	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 more	advcl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 thank	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 241	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 241	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present		the word		popular use as a expression of thanks		tree rules
2	mean	present	thanks	nothing			now	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	thanks not said here		you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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