Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 85
“If it suit me, I should let them fly by as they should; otherwise I should pluck them bald.”
Who acts: feather, Potter, geese · What happens: suit, let, fly, pluck · To what, where: Potter, geese
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 (feather, Potter, geese), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 suit | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suit | nsubj |
| 4 | suit | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 suit | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 should | mark |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 should | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 should | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fly | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pluck | punct |
| 17 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 20 pluck | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pluck | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pluck | aux |
| 20 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pluck | obj |
| 22 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pluck | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | feather | Potter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | should | Potter | geese = goose | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | infinitive | geese = goose not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pluck in a quote | should | Potter | geese = goose | bald, otherwise property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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