Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 113
Then the third began to boast, “I have sucked a lord’s daughter dry, and she can hardly stir.”
Who acts: third, dust · What happens: begin, boast, suck, stir · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, dust), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 boast | mark |
| 6 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sucked | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sucked | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sucked | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sucked | aux |
| 11 | sucked | suck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 began | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lord | det |
| 13 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 lord | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sucked | obj |
| 16 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sucked | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stir | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stir | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stir | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stir | aux |
| 21 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 22 stir | advmod |
| 22 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 stir | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the third | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | to-infinitive | the third not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suck in a quote | present · perfect | the third = third | a lord's daughter | dry property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent daughter=Source | |||
| 4 | stir in a quote | can | dust | hardly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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