Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 42

"No," says he, "let her take it back to the place she took it from."

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, let, take back, take · To what, where: he, mother, SHROUD, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 take	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 place	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	18 took	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		he		tree rules
2	let in a quote	infinitive		mother		tree rules
3	take back in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here	SHROUD	the place	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to place=Destination
4	take in a quote	past	mother	SHROUD		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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