Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 19
Soon the Pig felt frozen, and came to the Bull and said, “Brother, let me in.”
Who acts: Pig, Brother · What happens: feel, come, say, let in · To what, where: Pig · 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 (Pig, Brother), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pig | det |
| 3 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Bull | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bull | det |
| 11 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Brother | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 let | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Pig | frozen, soon property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Pig not said here | to the Bull | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bull=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Pig not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in in a quote | infinitive | Brother | the Pig = pig | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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