Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 18

"Surely we can never go on living all our lives without a soul [to speak to].

Who acts: we · What happens: not go, live, speak · To what, where: lives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 go	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 living	mark
8	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 go	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 lives	det:predet
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lives	nmod:poss
11	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 living	obj
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 soul	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 soul	det
14	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 living	obl
15	[	[	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 speak	mark
17	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 go	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 ]	case
19	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	can	we		surely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live in a quote	gerund	we not said here	our lives	without a soul	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
3	speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «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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