Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 109
“This will be a hard search for you,” the Crow said.
Who acts: This, Crow · What happens: be, say · To what, where: hard search · 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 (This, Crow), 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 | _ | 7 search | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 search | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 search | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 search | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 search | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 search | amod |
| 7 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 search | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 search | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 search | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Crow | det |
| 13 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | This | a hard search | for you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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