Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 78
“No reason to start lecturing me,” the Evil Spirit answered.
Who acts: Evil Spirit · What happens: start, lecture, answer · To what, where: Evil Spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evil Spirit), 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 | _ | 3 reason | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 start | mark |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reason | acl |
| 6 | lecturing | lecture | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 start | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 lecturing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reason | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reason | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Spirit | det |
| 11 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Spirit | compound |
| 12 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start in a quote | to-infinitive | the Evil Spirit not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lecture speech: other in a quote | gerund | the Evil Spirit not said here | the Evil Spirit = spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Evil Spirit | no reason ccomp | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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