Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 5
“Ask, but not every question turns out well: too knowing is too old.”
Who acts: you, question, knowing · What happens: ask, not turn out, know, be · 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 (you, question, knowing), 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 | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 turns | cc |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 turns | advmod |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ask | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 turns | compound:prt |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 turns | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 knowing | advmod |
| 13 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 old | csubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ask | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not turn out in a quote | present | every question | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | knowing | old 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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