Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 43
“May I eat this lion-whelp?
Who acts: queen bee · What happens: eat · To what, where: lion whelp
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 (queen bee), 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 | _ | 4 eat | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 whelp | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whelp | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lion | punct |
| 8 | whelp | whelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | may | the queen bee = bee | this lion whelp | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whelp=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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