Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 32
“Why did you not think of it sooner?” the rich man replied.
Who acts: you · What happens: not think, reply · To what, where: rich man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 think | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 think | advmod |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 think | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 sooner | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sooner | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sooner | nsubj |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | you | of festival; soon property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | participle | the rich man not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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