Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 45
“Do not touch it, Iván Tsarévich,” the lioness said; “at some time or other I shall be of service to you.”
Who acts: lioness, time · What happens: not touch, say, be · To what, where: lioness, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lioness, time), 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 touch | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 touch | advmod |
| 4 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 touch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Iván | punct |
| 7 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 touch | obj |
| 8 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Iván | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lioness | det |
| 12 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 service | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 service | nsubj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 other | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 service | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 service | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 service | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 service | case |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 service | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | infinitive · do-support | lioness | Iván obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer iván=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lioness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | some time | you | of service; I nsubj | 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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