Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 11
"Ah, brother Nicholas!" said Elijah, guessing the truth, "it's you who go and tell the Moujik everything!"
Who acts: Nicholas, truth, you · What happens: say, guess, be, go, tell · To what, where: truth, you, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Nicholas, truth, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nicholas | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nicholas | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 guessing | punct |
| 11 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 truth | det |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guessing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 you | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 you | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 you | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 you | cop |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tell | cc |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 everything | det |
| 24 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 everything | compound |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 tell | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Nicholas brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | guess | gerund | Nicholas brother not said here | the truth | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | truth | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you not said here | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=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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