Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 97

"Well, grandfather, am I to go, or not?"

Who acts: grandfather · What happens: go

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (grandfather), 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 grandfather	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 grandfather	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grandfather	punct
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 not	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 not	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 go	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	grandfather						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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