Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 171
"Are you asleep, or not, good youth?" says she.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 says | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 youth | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 youth | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 youth | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 youth | punct |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 youth | amod |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asleep | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 says | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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