Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 24
Then the Goose and the Cock came to the Bull and said, “Brother, we want to come in and warm ourselves.”
Who acts: Goose, we · What happens: come, say, want, come in, warm · To what, where: Brother, ourselves · 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 (Goose, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Goose | det |
| 3 | Goose | Goose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Cock | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cock | det |
| 6 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Goose | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Bull | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bull | det |
| 10 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brother | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brother | punct |
| 15 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 want | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 warm | cc |
| 23 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 24 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 warm | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Goose and the Cock | then | to the Bull | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bull=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Goose and the Cock not said here | Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come in not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | warm in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | ourselves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient |
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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