Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 38
“You are lying, old devil!” said the soldier, and began rummaging about in the stove and on the shelves.
Who acts: You, soldier · What happens: lie, say, begin, rummage · 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 (You, soldier), 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 | _ | 4 lying | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lying | aux |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 devil | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 devil | amod |
| 7 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | rummaging | rummage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 began | xcomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 stove | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 stove | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stove | det |
| 20 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rummaging | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shelves | cc |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 shelves | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shelves | det |
| 24 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stove | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present · progressive | You | old devil conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the soldier not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | rummage | gerund | the soldier not said here | about the stove and the shelves | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about stove=Location |
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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