Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 42

Says the King to the doctors: "What sort of valuables will you have? would you like gold or silver?

Who acts: King, sort, doctors · What happens: say, have, like, sort · To what, where: doctors, gold, valuables · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, sort, doctors), 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	Says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Says	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 doctors	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctors	det
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Says	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
9	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 sort	det
10	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 valuables	case
12	valuables	valuable	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sort	nmod
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Says	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	conj
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 like	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 silver	cc
22	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gold	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	the King		the doctors	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to doctor=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	future	what sort of valuables			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	like in a quote	would	the doctors = doctor	gold or silver		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme
4	sort in a quote			valuables		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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