Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 44

“Why should we hurl all this good stuff into the well?” the master replied, “for there are only three pecks, and it will all be thrown away for nothing.”

Who acts: we, master · What happens: hurl, reply, be, throw away · To what, where: good stuff, well, three pecks, master · 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 (we, master), 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	_	5 hurl	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hurl	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurl	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hurl	nsubj
5	hurl	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 replied	ccomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stuff	det:predet
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 stuff	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stuff	amod
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurl	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 well	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 well	det
12	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hurl	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hurl	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hurl	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 master	det
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pecks	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 pecks	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 are	mark
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 are	expl
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 pecks	cop
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 pecks	advmod
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pecks	nummod
25	pecks	peck	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 replied	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thrown	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thrown	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thrown	nsubj:pass
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 thrown	aux
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 thrown	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 thrown	aux:pass
32	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 replied	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 thrown	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 nothing	case
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 thrown	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurl in a quote	should	we	all good stuff	the well		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme into well=Destination
2	reply speech: ask	past	the master				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present		three pecks			tree rules
4	throw away in a quote	future · passive		master		for nothing; all, away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 44