Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 70
“Look,” said the woman, “here is your old dog restoring your child!”
Who acts: woman, old dog · What happens: look, say, be, restore · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (woman, old dog), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | cop |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dog | amod |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | conj |
| 15 | restoring | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 dog | acl |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 child | nmod:poss |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 restoring | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | your old dog conj; here property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | restore in a quote | gerund | your old dog not said here | your child | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
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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