Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 54
The second one said: “If only the King’s valet would cast his eyes upon me!”
Who acts: second one, valet · What happens: say, cast · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second one, valet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 cast | mark |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 King | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 valet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | valet | valet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cast | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cast | aux |
| 14 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cast | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 cast | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the second one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cast a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | the King's valet | King's eyes | upon me | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon i=Destination |
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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