Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 100
And the Eagle answered: “It will be an evil quest.
Who acts: Eagle, guest · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: evil quest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, guest), 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 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 quest | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 quest | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 quest | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 quest | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 quest | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 quest | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 quest | amod |
| 12 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Eagle | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | guest | a evil quest | tree rules |
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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