Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 27

"Who are you? from what cities, of what families? what do you want?"

Who acts: you · What happens: be, want · To what, where: families

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 Who	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Who	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Who	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Who	nsubj
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 what	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 cities	parataxis
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 what	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 families	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 want	obj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 want	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 families	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cities	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you						tree rules
2	want in a quote	present · do-support	you	families					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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