Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 158
“As you, Lord, told us, the well was there, but it was so horrible that we could hardly look into it.”
Who acts: well, we · What happens: tell, be, look · To what, where: us · 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 (well, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 Lord | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 Lord | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 there | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 there | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 told | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 horrible | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 horrible | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 horrible | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 horrible | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 horrible | advmod |
| 19 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 told | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 look | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 look | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 look | aux |
| 23 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 24 look | advmod |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 horrible | advcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | us | as Lord you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the well | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | well | horrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | could | we | into well; hardly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=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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