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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 84

No, I'm not asleep," he replies; "but I'm thinking which fish there are most of in the river--big ones or little ones."

Who acts: I, wolf · What happens: not be, reply, think, be · To what, where: most · 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 (I, wolf), 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

discoursepunctnsubjcopadvmodpunctpunctnsubjconjpunctpunctccnsubjauxadvcldetdislocatedexplccompoblcasecasedetnmodpunctamodapposccamodconjpunctpunctrootNoINTJ,PUNCTIPRON'mAUXnotPARTasleepADJ,PUNCT"PUNCThePRONrepliesVERB;PUNCT"PUNCTbutCCONJIPRON'mAUXthinkingVERBwhichDETfishNOUNtherePRONareVERBmostADJofADPinADPtheDETriverNOUN--PUNCTbigADJonesNOUNorCCONJlittleADJonesNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoINTJPolarity=Neg6 asleepdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_6 asleeppunct
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 asleepnsubj
4'mbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 asleepcop
5notnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 asleepadvmod
6asleepasleepADJDegree=Posrootroot
7,,PUNCT_10 repliespunct
8""PUNCT_10 repliespunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 repliesnsubj
10repliesreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 asleepconj
11;;PUNCT_16 thinkingpunct
12""PUNCT_16 thinkingpunct
13butbutCCONJ_16 thinkingcc
14IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 thinkingnsubj
15'mbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 thinkingaux
16thinkingthinkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 repliesadvcl
17whichwhichDETPronType=Int18 fishdet
18fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing20 aredislocated
19theretherePRONPronType=Dem20 areexpl
20arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 thinkingccomp
21mostmostADJDegree=Sup16 thinkingobl
22ofofADP_25 rivercase
23ininADP_25 rivercase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 riverdet
25riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing21 mostnmod
26----PUNCT_28 onespunct
27bigbigADJDegree=Pos28 onesamod
28onesoneNOUNNumber=Plur25 riverappos
29ororCCONJ_31 onescc
30littlelittleADJDegree=Pos31 onesamod
31onesoneNOUNNumber=Plur28 onesconj
32..PUNCT_6 asleeppunct
33""PUNCT_6 asleeppunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not ispresentIasleep propertytree rules
2reply speech: assert in a quotepresentwolfvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3think speech: otherpresent · progressiveImost of the rivervn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4bepresenttherewhich fish dislocatedvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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