Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 45
And he thought and said: “What is my old devil doing?”
Who acts: understanding, old devil · What happens: think, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (understanding, old devil), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 doing | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 doing | cop |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 devil | nmod:poss |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 devil | amod |
| 12 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doing | nsubj |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | understanding | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | understanding not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my old devil | What obj; do 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 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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