Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 43

"But what must I do? tell me."

Who acts: you · What happens: tell · To what, where: Soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (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	_	8 tell	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here		Soldier				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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