Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 51
"No, brothers!" said the Fiddler, "your strings don't suit me.
Who acts: brothers, strings · What happens: say, not suit · To what, where: brothers · 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 (brothers, strings), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 brothers | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fiddler | det |
| 9 | Fiddler | Fiddler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 suit | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 suit | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 strings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 suit | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 suit | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 suit | advmod |
| 16 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 suit | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not suit in a quote | present · do-support | your strings | brothers = brother | tree rules |
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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