Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 27
“But if you do not let us in,” said the Goose, “I will pluck away all the moss from the walls, and you will be much colder!”
Who acts: you, Goose · What happens: not let in, say, pluck away, be · To what, where: us, moss, walls · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 let | advmod |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Goose | det |
| 14 | Goose | Goose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pluck | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 pluck | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pluck | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 pluck | aux |
| 19 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 pluck | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 moss | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moss | det |
| 23 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pluck | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 walls | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 walls | det |
| 26 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pluck | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 colder | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 colder | cc |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 colder | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 colder | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 colder | cop |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 colder | advmod |
| 33 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 said | nsubj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 colder | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 colder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Goose | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pluck away in a quote | future | the Goose = goose | all moss | the walls | away property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent moss=Theme from wall=Source | ||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | you | cold property | tree rules |
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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