Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 24

"Well, Prince! what's to prevent you? you're of an age at which it's time to think about a bride.

Who acts: you, age · What happens: be, think · To what, where: time, age

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (you, age), 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	_	9 prevent	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 prevent	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 prevent	vocative
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Prince	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 prevent	obj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 prevent	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 prevent	mark
9	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 prevent	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 prevent	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 age	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 age	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 age	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 age	det
16	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prevent	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 time	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 time	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 time	cop
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 age	obl:unmarked
22	to	to	PART	_	23 think	mark
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 bride	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bride	det
26	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 think	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				Prince vocative; prevent property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	you		of a age		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	age	time	at a age		tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			about a bride	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bride=Topic

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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