Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 149
“We should be very glad to accept you, Iván Tsarévich,” they replied, “but we shall not live much longer.
Who acts: We, seamstresses · What happens: be, accept, reply, not live · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (We, seamstresses), 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 | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 accept | mark |
| 8 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 accept | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Iván | punct |
| 11 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 glad | obl |
| 12 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Iván | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 live | cc |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 live | advmod |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 live | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | We | Iván obl; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accept in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | seamstresses = seamstress | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not live in a quote | shall | we | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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