Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 112

"Wife! wife, I say! shall I climb up into heaven and see what's going on there?

Who acts: Wife · What happens: say, climb up, see, go on · To what, where: heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife), 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 Wife	punct
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wife	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 climb	punct
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 climb	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 climb	nsubj
11	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 climb	compound:prt
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 heaven	case
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climb	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 climb	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 see	obj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 going	aux
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 what	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 going	compound:prt
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 going	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	present	Wife and wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	climb up in a quote	shall	Wife and wife = wife	heaven	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into heaven=Destination
3	see in a quote	infinitive	Wife and wife = wife not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	go on in a quote	present · progressive		there	vn function-105.2.1 «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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