Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 123
“I will one day go into his room,” she said, “and see where the poor devil lives.”
Who acts: daughter, poor devil · What happens: go, say, see, live · To what, where: room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, poor devil), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 lives | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 devil | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 devil | amod |
| 21 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lives | nsubj |
| 22 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | daughter | Tsarévna's room | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the poor devil | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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