Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 124
"No, brother! don't ask me; it cannot be.
Who acts: acquaintance · What happens: not ask, not be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (acquaintance), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 No | vocative |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | advmod |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 be | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 be | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not can in a quote | can | acquaintance | vn exist-47.1 «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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