Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 77
“I also am not going,” said the second, “for my knitting needles give me light enough.
Who acts: I, knitting needles · What happens: not go, say, give · To what, where: second, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, knitting needles), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 going | advmod |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 going | advmod |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 needles | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 needles | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knitting | knitting | NOUN | _ | 17 needles | compound |
| 17 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 give | xcomp |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 light | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the second | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | my knitting needles | me | light property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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