Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 132
“How dared you play the master in my garden!” cried the snake to the merchant.
Who acts: merchant, snake · What happens: dare, play, cry · To what, where: master, garden, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (merchant, snake), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dared | advmod |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 play | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 play | nsubj |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 play | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 merchant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 merchant | det |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | participle | the merchant = merchant not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | present | the merchant = merchant | the master | my garden | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the snake | the merchant | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to merchant=Recipient |
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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