Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 16
So the Bull thought, and on second thoughts said, “Very well, I will let you in.
Who acts: Bull · What happens: think, say, let in · To what, where: second thoughts, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bull | det |
| 3 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 thoughts | case |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 thoughts | amod |
| 9 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 13 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 let | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | aux |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 let | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Bull | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bull not said here | second thoughts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in in a quote | future | the Bull = bull | you | well property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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