Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 60
And the beer turned out so fine, finer than ever anybody could think or guess, or any tale could tell.
Who acts: beer, anybody, tale · What happens: turn out, think, guess, tell · 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 (beer, anybody, tale), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 turned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beer | det |
| 3 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 turned | compound:prt |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 fine | advmod |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turned | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 finer | punct |
| 9 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 turned | conj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 think | advmod |
| 12 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 think | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 finer | advcl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 guess | cc |
| 16 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 think | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 tell | cc |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 tale | det |
| 20 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | aux |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 think | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | the beer | fine property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | anybody | ever | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | guess | infinitive | anybody not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | could | any tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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