Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 74
I never saw such girlish trash in my father’s house, and I have never heard of them, and yet you find them in Tsar Bárkhat’s food!”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not see, not hear, find · To what, where: such girlish trash, house, houses, food
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trash | amod |
| 5 | girlish | girlish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trash | amod |
| 6 | trash | trash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 heard | advmod |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 find | cc |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 find | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 food | case |
| 27 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 food | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Tsar | flat |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Tsar | case |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | I | such girlish trash | my father's house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trash=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not hear | present · perfect | I | of houses = house | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | present | you | houses = house | Tsar's food | yet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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