Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 72
And at last he came up to the peasant, and said, “Give me my coffin lid, or else I will smash you to atoms.”
Who acts: corpse · What happens: come up, say, give, smash · To what, where: last, coffin lid, corpse, you, atoms · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (corpse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 peasant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 15 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Give | iobj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lid | nmod:poss |
| 18 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lid | compound |
| 19 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Give | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 smash | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 smash | cc |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 smash | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 smash | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 smash | aux |
| 25 | smash | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Give | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 smash | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 atoms | case |
| 28 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 smash | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | corpse | last | to the peasant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | corpse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | my coffin lid | corpse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lid=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smash in a quote | future | corpse | you | atoms | else property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme to atom=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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