Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 102
“What nonsense! you’re much too little yet: you might get drowned, and that would be a fine story.”
Who acts: you, that · What happens: nonsense, be, drown · To what, where: little, you, fine story
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | _ | 3 nonsense | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 nonsense | nsubj |
| 3 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ’re | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 nonsense | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ’re | nsubj |
| 6 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ’re | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 ’re | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 drowned | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 drowned | aux |
| 14 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 drowned | aux:pass |
| 15 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ’re | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 story | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 story | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 story | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 story | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 story | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 story | amod |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drowned | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’re | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nonsense in a quote | What nsubj | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | you | little | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | drown in a quote | might · passive | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | would | that | a fine story | 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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