Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 50

“Now,” the old man said, “formerly there was water in the well, and to-morrow it will be beer.

Who acts: old man, well · What happens: say, be · To what, where: water, well, beer · 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 (old man, well), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	13 was	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 water	cop
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 well	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 well	det
17	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 water	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 beer	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 beer	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 morrow	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beer	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 beer	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 beer	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 beer	cop
26	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past		water	the well			tree rules
3	is a in a quote	future	well	beer			to morrow	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 50