Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 34
“What a capital fellow you are, Mr. Fox!” said the Bear and the Wolf.
Who acts: capital fellow · What happens: say · To what, where: Bear · 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 (capital fellow), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 fellow | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 are | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fellow | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bear | det |
| 15 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Wolf | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wolf | det |
| 18 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bear | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | what capital fellow and Mr. Fox | the Bear and the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bear=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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