Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 133
“Why have you broken off a blossom?”
What happens: break off · To what, where: blossom
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: 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 broken | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 broken | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blossom | det |
| 8 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off in a quote | present · perfect | a blossom | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blossom=Patient |
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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