Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 156
She called the smith: “Smith, smith, make me two more iron teeth, or I’ll eat you up.”
Who acts: WOMAN · What happens: call, make, eat up · To what, where: smith, two more iron teeth, WOMAN, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smith | det |
| 4 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Smith | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Smith | punct |
| 7 | Smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smith | punct |
| 9 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Smith | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 teeth | nummod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 teeth | amod |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teeth | compound |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eat | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 eat | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | nsubj |
| 20 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 eat | aux |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 eat | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | WOMAN | the smith | Smith and smith xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smith=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | WOMAN not said here | two more iron teeth | WOMAN | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tooth=Product | |||
| 3 | eat up in a quote | future | 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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