Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 95
“Certainly,” said the peasant—“I shall be only too glad; only, will you go on telling me stories all night long?”
Who acts: peasant, you · What happens: say, be, go, tell · To what, where: stories, peasant · 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 (peasant, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 glad | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 glad | advmod |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 glad | advmod |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 only | punct |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 23 telling | mark |
| 23 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 go | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 telling | iobj |
| 25 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 telling | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 telling | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 go | advmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the peasant | certainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | the peasant = peasant | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | you | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | you not said here | stories | the peasant = peasant | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=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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