Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 152
“Smith, smith, make me some iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.”
Who acts: Smith, wise woman · What happens: make, eat up · To what, where: iron teeth, wise woman, you
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 (Smith, wise woman), 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 make | punct |
| 2 | Smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 smith | punct |
| 4 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Smith | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Smith | punct |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 teeth | det |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teeth | compound |
| 10 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 eat | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | Smith and smith | some iron teeth | the wise woman = woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tooth=Product | |||
| 2 | eat up in a quote | future | the wise woman = woman | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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