Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 180
“Much too dear, isn’t that?”
What happens: not be · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 2 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 4 dear | advmod |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 dear | advmod |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 that | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 that | cop |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 that | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dear | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | that | 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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