Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 173
She had finished the pancake by now, and said: “Now, gaffer, we’ll share it, this bit for you, this bit for me!”
Who acts: gaffer · What happens: finish, say, share · To what, where: pancake · 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 (gaffer), 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 | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finished | aux |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pancake | det |
| 5 | pancake | pancake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finished | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 now | case |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 finished | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finished | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 share | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 share | punct |
| 13 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 share | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Now | punct |
| 15 | gaffer | gaffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 share | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gaffer | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 share | nsubj |
| 18 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 share | aux |
| 19 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 share | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bit | punct |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 bit | det |
| 23 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 share | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 bit | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bit | punct |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 bit | det |
| 28 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 share | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 bit | nmod |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 share | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 share | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | gaffer | the pancake | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector pancake=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | share in a quote | future | gaffer | pancake | now | this bit for you obl; this bit for me obl; we nsubj | 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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