Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 90
And then he uncovered the _fatá_, and when he saw the brick he was very wroth, and said: “I suppose you think I have very few bricks, and you have come to trade in them in my kingdom!”
Who acts: king, you · What happens: uncover, see, be, say, suppose, think · To what, where: fatá, brick, few bricks, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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 | _ | 4 uncovered | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 uncovered | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 uncovered | nsubj |
| 4 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fatá | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 fatá | punct |
| 7 | fatá | fatá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uncovered | obj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncovered | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uncovered | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brick | det |
| 15 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wroth | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wroth | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 wroth | advmod |
| 19 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brick | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 suppose | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 suppose | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 suppose | nsubj |
| 26 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 suppose | ccomp |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | ccomp |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 few | advmod |
| 32 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bricks | amod |
| 33 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 come | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 come | cc |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 come | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 come | aux |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 uncovered | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 trade | mark |
| 40 | trade | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 come | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 trade | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 kingdom | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 45 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 trade | obl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 come | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | past | king | the fatá | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | king | the brick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brick=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king | the brick not said here | wroth property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | suppose in a quote | present | king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | king | few bricks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Patient | ||||
| 8 | come in a quote | present · perfect | you | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | trade in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my kingdom | in bricks = brick | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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