Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 127
She would have pleased Satan more than the clear-eyed hawk, and it was no good frothing at anybody: he was the only person in the wrong.
Who acts: wife, hawk, Satan · What happens: have, be · To what, where: pleased Satan, good frothing, anybody, only person, wrong
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, hawk, Satan), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Satan | amod |
| 5 | Satan | Satan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 Satan | amod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 hawk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hawk | det |
| 9 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyed | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 clear | punct |
| 11 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hawk | amod |
| 12 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 frothing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 frothing | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 frothing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 frothing | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 frothing | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 frothing | amod |
| 19 | frothing | frothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 anybody | case |
| 21 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 frothing | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 person | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 person | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 person | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 person | det |
| 26 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 person | amod |
| 27 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 wrong | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wrong | det |
| 30 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 person | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | wife | pleased Satan | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satan=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | hawk | no good frothing | anybody | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Satan | the only person | the wrong | 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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