Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 66
The old woman answered, “As long as the horse is alive nothing can be brought about.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 7 | As | as | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | cop |
| 13 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nothing | amod |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 brought | aux:pass |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 long | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the old woman | long property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | can · present · passive | the horse | nothing nsubj:pass; about, bring property | 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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