Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 102
“That is a fine tale; it was found on you; you must be guilty.”
Who acts: That, fine tale, you · What happens: be, find · To what, where: fine tale, tale
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, fine tale, you), 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 | _ | 6 tale | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tale | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tale | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tale | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tale | amod |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tale | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 found | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 guilty | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 guilty | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 guilty | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 guilty | cop |
| 17 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tale | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tale | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a fine tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | past · passive | a fine tale not said here | tale | on you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | you | guilty 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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