Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 156
If a single worm escapes, it will be no good, for I shall creep out into that worm.”
Who acts: single worm, pile, I · What happens: escape, be, creep out
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single worm, pile, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 escapes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 worm | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 worm | amod |
| 4 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escapes | nsubj |
| 5 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 escapes | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 good | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 good | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 good | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 creep | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 creep | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 creep | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 creep | aux |
| 16 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 good | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 creep | compound:prt |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 worm | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 worm | det |
| 20 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 creep | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape a condition, not said to happen | present | a single worm | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | future | pile | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep out | shall | I | into that worm | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into worm=Destination |
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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