Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 93
“Why, you could never get into this wheel, much less into a crack!”
Who acts: you · What happens: not get · To what, where: wheel
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), 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 | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 get | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 get | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 wheel | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 wheel | det |
| 10 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 less | punct |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 less | advmod |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 get | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 crack | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crack | det |
| 16 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 less | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | could | you | this wheel | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wheel=Destination |
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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