Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 149

"What was that you were saying just now?"

Who acts: you · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. 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	_	7 saying	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 saying	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 saying	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	aux
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 saying	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past · progressive	you				now	say property	tree rules

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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