Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 7
He only thought this, but the Peasant guessed his thought and said, “Why am I grey?
Who acts: Peasant · What happens: think, guess, say, be · To what, where: this, thought · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peasant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 guessed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 guessed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Peasant | det |
| 8 | Peasant | Peasant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 guessed | nsubj |
| 9 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guessed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 guessed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grey | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 grey | punct |
| 16 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 grey | advmod |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 grey | cop |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 grey | nsubj |
| 19 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Peasant | this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guess | past | the Peasant | Peasant's thought | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the Peasant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Peasant = peasant | grey property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think | Peasant | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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