Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 57
“Everything is beautiful here,” said the Princess; “the only thing still lacking is to see the birds upon our ponds.”
Who acts: Everything, Princess, only thing · What happens: be, say, lack · 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 (Everything, Princess, only thing), 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 | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 lacking | advmod |
| 17 | lacking | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 thing | acl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 birds | det |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 ponds | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ponds | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Everything | here | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lack in a quote | gerund | the only thing not said here | still | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the only thing | upon our ponds; the birds obj; see 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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