Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 38
"Don't you know me, father?" presently asks the fair maiden. "
Who acts: you, fair maiden · What happens: not know, ask · To what, where: fair maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fair maiden), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asks | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 11 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 12 asks | advmod |
| 12 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asks | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | the fair maiden = maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | the fair maiden | presently property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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