Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 127
And the girl told her: “There is as much again in the corn-bin.”
Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: woman, corn bin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 much | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 8 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 much | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | ccomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bin | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bin | det |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bin | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 corn | punct |
| 17 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 much | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the girl | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the corn bin | again | much 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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