Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 25
"There now, Elijah!" says Nicholas, "you say I go and tell everything to the Moujik--surely you can see for yourself how much truth there is in that!"
Who acts: Elijah, you, much truth · What happens: say, go, tell, see, be · To what, where: everything, Moujik, that · 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, you, much truth), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 says | ccomp |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 says | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Elijah | punct |
| 5 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Elijah | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Elijah | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 tell | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Moujik | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Moujik | det |
| 21 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 23 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 26 see | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 yourself | case |
| 28 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 see | obl |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 truth | amod |
| 31 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 is | nsubj |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 is | expl |
| 33 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | ccomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 that | case |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 is | obl |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Elijah | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Elijah | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Elijah not said here | everything | the Moujik | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to moujik=Recipient | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | can | you | for yourself; surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | much truth | that; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in that=Location |
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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