Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 142
“If there were a log there fifty _puds_, I could throw it up and allow it to fall on my head without feeling the blow.”
Who acts: Woodsprite, log · What happens: be, throw up, allow, fall, feel · To what, where: log, head, blow
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 (Woodsprite, log), 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 there | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 were | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 log | det |
| 6 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 puds | nummod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 puds | punct |
| 10 | puds | pud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 there | obl |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 puds | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 throw | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 throw | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 throw | aux |
| 15 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 there | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 throw | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 throw | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 allow | cc |
| 19 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 throw | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 allow | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fall | mark |
| 22 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 allow | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fall | obl |
| 26 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 27 feeling | mark |
| 27 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 fall | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 blow | det |
| 29 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feeling | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 throw | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | fifty puds obl; there property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | throw up in a quote | could | the Woodsprite = woodsprite | log | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow in a quote | infinitive | the Woodsprite = woodsprite not said here | log | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | fall not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | log not said here | my head | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location | ||||
| 5 | feel in a quote | gerund | log not said here | the blow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=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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