Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 28
“What! won’t you let me in?” said the Cock.
Who acts: you, Cock · What happens: not let in, say · To what, where: Cock · 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, Cock), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 let | obj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 let | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cock | det |
| 14 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in in a quote | future | you | the Cock = cock | What obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient i=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Cock | 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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