Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 7
“Here is something for supper; I will cook it and make fish soup of it, and shall have a fine supper.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, cook, make, have · To what, where: something, supper, fish soup, fine supper
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 something | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 cook | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 cook | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cook | aux |
| 10 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 something | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cook | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cook | conj |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soup | compound |
| 15 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 soup | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cook | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 supper | det |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 supper | amod |
| 24 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | something | here | for supper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cook in a quote | future | I | supper | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | fish soup of soup | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | I not said here | a fine supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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