Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 31
“How can one cross the river of fire?”
Who acts: one · What happens: cross · To what, where: river
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 cross | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | aux |
| 4 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cross | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 river | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross in a quote | can | one | the river of fire | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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