Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 23
So the princesses tried a feint: “We have not been anywhere.”
Who acts: princesses, We · What happens: try, not be · To what, where: feint
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses, We), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 tried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princesses | det |
| 3 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feint | det |
| 6 | feint | feint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 anywhere | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 anywhere | punct |
| 9 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 anywhere | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 anywhere | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 anywhere | advmod |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 anywhere | cop |
| 13 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 tried | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the princesses | a feint | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feint=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present · perfect | We | anywhere 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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