Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 28

"Well, I'll tell you, but don't you tell anyone else," replied Satan, after hesitating for a time. "

Who acts: I, you, Satan · What happens: tell, not do, reply, hesitate · To what, where: you, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Satan), 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 replied	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	advcl
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 do	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 tell	obj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 anyone	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 replied	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hesitating	punct
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 hesitating	mark
22	hesitating	hesitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 replied	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hesitating	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 hesitating	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 hesitating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not do in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
4	reply speech: assert	past	Satan			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hesitate	gerund	Satan not said here		time	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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