Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 79

"Well then, now tell me how they can be brought back to life."

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, bring back · To what, where: corpse, youngsters, life · 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 (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	_	6 tell	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tell	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 brought	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj:pass
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 brought	aux:pass
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tell	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 brought	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 life	case
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the corpse = corpse		then; now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	bring back in a quote	can · passive		youngsters = youngster		life			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to life=Destination

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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