Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 141
And oh, what a fine young man he was—so sensible, brave, and so handsome!
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 what | cc |
| 2 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sensible | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 sensible | advmod |
| 13 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 what | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brave | punct |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sensible | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 handsome | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 handsome | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 handsome | advmod |
| 19 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sensible | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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