Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 3
So the poor peasant thought, “All good folks are getting ready to break the fast, and I have not a crust of bread.
Who acts: good folks, I · What happens: get, break, have · To what, where: fast, crust, poor peasant thought
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 (good folks, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | amod |
| 4 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | amod |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 8 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 folks | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 folks | amod |
| 10 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 getting | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | aux |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thought | conj |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 break | mark |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fast | det |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 break | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 crust | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 crust | det |
| 24 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bread | case |
| 26 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crust | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · progressive | all good folks | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | break in a quote | to-infinitive | all good folks not said here | the fast | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fast=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | a crust of bread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=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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