Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 69

“You are a bold fellow, potter: I have seen very few such, and I like them.

Who acts: You, man · What happens: be, see, like · To what, where: bold fellow, fellow

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 (You, man), 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 fellow	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
5	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 potter	punct
8	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fellow	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fellow	parataxis
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 few	advmod
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 such	amod
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 seen	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 like	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
19	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 like	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	a bold fellow and potter	potter conj	tree rules
2	see in a quote	present · perfect	a man = man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	like in a quote	present	a man = man	fellow		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 69