Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 146
The old man said, “Won’t it be very dark in the bath?”
Who acts: old man, bath · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: bath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, bath), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 7 | Wo | wo | INTJ | _ | 8 n’t | discourse |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dark | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dark | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dark | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 dark | advmod |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bath | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bath | det |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dark | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 dark | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive | bath | the bath | dark property | 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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