Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 145
“I am seeking summer in winter,” said the Goose.
Who acts: Goose · What happens: seek, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goose), 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 seeking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seeking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seeking | aux |
| 4 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 winter | case |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Goose | det |
| 12 | Goose | Goose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek in a quote | present · progressive | the Goose = goose | summer; winter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Goose | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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