Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 16
"What I shall do, that I won't tell you," replies Elijah.
Who acts: Elijah · What happens: do, not tell, reply · To what, where: you · 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 (Elijah), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replies | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replies | punct |
| 15 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 16 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replies | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | Elijah | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Elijah | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | present | Elijah | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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