Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 11

"Tell me; why did you draw off their blood in those phials?"

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, draw off · To what, where: Soldier, blood, phials · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 draw	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 draw	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 draw	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 draw	nsubj
8	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 draw	compound:prt
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 blood	nmod:poss
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 draw	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 phials	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 phials	det
14	phials	phial	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 draw	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 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 Soldier = soldier				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	draw off in a quote	past · do-support	you	phials's blood		that phials			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme in phial=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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