Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 75
Then the eagle said to him, “It is the house of my youngest sister that glitters: she would not receive you, but gave you for food to the fleet hounds.”
Who acts: eagle, field, youngest sister, sister · What happens: say, be, glitter, not receive, give · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, field, youngest sister, sister), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 9 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 house | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sister | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 sister | amod |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 glitters | nsubj |
| 18 | glitters | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sister | acl:relcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 receive | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 receive | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 receive | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 receive | advmod |
| 23 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 receive | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gave | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 gave | cc |
| 27 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 gave | iobj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 food | case |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gave | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 hounds | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hounds | det |
| 33 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hounds | amod |
| 34 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 gave | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the eagle | house | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | field | the house | of my youngest sister | tree rules | |||
| 3 | glitter in a quote | present | my youngest sister | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not receive in a quote | would | sister | house | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | past | the eagle not said here | house | for food; to the fleet hounds | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for food=Asset to hound=Recipient |
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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