Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 88

The wolf enquires if he has gone to sleep, but is told that he is awake, but engrossed by the question as to "which folks are there most of in the world--the living or the dead."

Who acts: wolf, folks · What happens: enquire, go, sleep, tell, be, engross · 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 (wolf, folks), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enquires	nsubj
3	enquires	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 gone	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 enquires	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 enquires	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 awake	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 awake	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 awake	cop
17	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 engrossed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 engrossed	cc
20	engrossed	engross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 told	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 question	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 question	det
23	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 engrossed	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 there	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	30 there	mark
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 there	punct
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	28 folks	det
28	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 there	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 there	cop
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 engrossed	advcl
31	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 there	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 world	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 most	nmod
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 living	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 living	det
38	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	parataxis
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 dead	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dead	det
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 living	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enquires	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 enquires	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	enquire speech: other	present	the wolf		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	wolf		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive	wolf not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic
5	is	present	wolf	awake property	tree rules
6	engross	participle		by the question	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	is in a quote	present	which folks	most of the world obl; there 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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