Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 129
“That is not a youth, but an angel who was lying there; and that is why they are on such good and loving terms.”
Who acts: That, angel, youth, angels · What happens: not be, lie, be · To what, where: youth, such good terms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, angel, youth, angels), 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 youth | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 youth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 youth | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 youth | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 angel | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 angel | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 angel | det |
| 10 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 youth | appos |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lying | aux |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 angel | acl:relcl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lying | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 why | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 why | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 why | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 why | cop |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 youth | acl:relcl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 terms | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 terms | cop |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 terms | case |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 terms | amod |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 terms | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 loving | cc |
| 26 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 good | conj |
| 27 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 why | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 youth | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 youth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | That | a youth | a angel appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie in a quote | past · progressive | a angel | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a youth | a youth not said here | why property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | angels = angel | such good terms | 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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