Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 36
“I certainly won’t!” she said, “I would sooner go to the Devil.”
Who acts: animal · What happens: say, go · 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 (animal), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wo | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 wo | advmod |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wo | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wo | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wo | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 14 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 go | advmod |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Devil | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Devil | det |
| 18 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | would | animal | to the Devil; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to devil=Initial_Location |
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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