Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 30

Otherwise you'd be telling all this."

Who acts: you · What happens: tell · To what, where: this · 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	Otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	5 telling	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 telling	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 telling	aux
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 this	det:predet
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 telling	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would · progressive	you	this				otherwise property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient

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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