Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 132
Then the soldier suddenly remembered the nosebag and thought: “I’ll just test this nosebag”; took it out, opened it, and said: “Hi! you wild geese, fly into my nosebag!”
Who acts: soldier, you, wild geese · What happens: remember, think, test, take out, open, say · To what, where: nosebag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, you, wild geese), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 remembered | advmod |
| 5 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nosebag | det |
| 7 | nosebag | nosebag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remembered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remembered | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 test | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 test | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 test | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 test | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 test | advmod |
| 15 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 nosebag | det |
| 17 | nosebag | nosebag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 test | obj |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 test | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remembered | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 opened | punct |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opened | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remembered | parataxis |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 geese | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 geese | punct |
| 31 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 35 geese | discourse |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hi | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 geese | nsubj |
| 34 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 geese | amod |
| 35 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 said | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fly | punct |
| 37 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 geese | acl |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 nosebag | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 nosebag | nmod:poss |
| 40 | nosebag | nosebag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fly | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 geese | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the soldier | the nosebag | then | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nosebag=Theme | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the soldier not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | test in a quote | future | the soldier = soldier | this nosebag | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosebag=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take out | past | nosebag | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | open | past | nosebag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | goose in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | fly in a quote | infinitive | wild geese not said here | into my nosebag result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into nosebag=Result |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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