Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 103
“I cannot; they are already sold.”
What happens: sell · To what, where: goods
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 9 sold | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sold | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 can | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 sold | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sold | aux:pass |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 sold | advmod |
| 9 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sold | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | can · passive | goods | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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