Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 42
“Why is the Fox such a long time at work with the Cock?” said the Wolf: “Unlock the door, Mikháylo Ivánovich,[45] and I will come in.”
Who acts: Fox · What happens: be, say, unlock, come in · To what, where: Fox, Wolf, door · 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 (Fox), 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 | _ | 5 Fox | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Fox | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Fox | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Fox | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Cock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cock | det |
| 14 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fox | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fox | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wolf | det |
| 19 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Unlock | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Unlock | punct |
| 22 | Unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Unlock | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Mikháylo | punct |
| 26 | Mikháylo | Mikháylo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Unlock | obj |
| 27 | Ivánovich | Ivánovich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Mikháylo | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 45 | punct |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 45 | punct |
| 30 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Unlock | obl |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 Unlock | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 come | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADV | _ | 35 come | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Fox | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Fox | the Wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | unlock in a quote | infinitive | the door | 45 obl; Mikháylo obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in in a quote | future | the Fox = fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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