Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 118
“What a fool your peasant is!” said the sixth devil.
Who acts: fool, sixth devil · What happens: be, say · 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 (fool, sixth devil), 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 | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 fool | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fool | det |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 peasant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fool | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | 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 | 13 devil | det |
| 12 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 devil | amod |
| 13 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | what fool your peasant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the sixth devil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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