Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 133
All the good folk are now gadding about making merry, and we have not a crust of bread in our house.
Who acts: good folk, we · What happens: gad, make, have · To what, where: crust
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good folk, we), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 folk | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 folk | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 folk | amod |
| 4 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gadding | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gadding | aux |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 gadding | advmod |
| 7 | gadding | gad | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 making | mark |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gadding | advcl |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 making | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gadding | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 crust | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crust | det |
| 17 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bread | case |
| 19 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crust | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bread | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gadding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gad | present · progressive | all good folk | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | all good folk not said here | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | have | present | we | a crust of bread in our house | 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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