Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 134
“It would be better,” she said, “to break your fast with a dog than with such a filthy old beggar.”
Who acts: lad, mother, your · What happens: be, say, break, fast · To what, where: fast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, mother, your), 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 better | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 break | mark |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fast | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fast | fast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 dog | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | obl |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 beggar | case |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 beggar | case |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 beggar | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 beggar | det |
| 23 | filthy | filthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beggar | amod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beggar | amod |
| 25 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | lad | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | to-infinitive | your fast | with a dog; than such filthy old beggar | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fast=Patient with dog=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | fast in a quote | your | nom fast «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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