Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 69
St. Peter was deep in thought and suddenly said: “How fine it must be to be God!
Who acts: Peter, thought · What happens: be, say · To what, where: thought, God · 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 (Peter, thought), 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 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Peter | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 deep | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deep | cop |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deep | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deep | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 fine | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fine | punct |
| 12 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 fine | advmod |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deep | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 God | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 God | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 God | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 God | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 God | cop |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fine | parataxis |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peter St. | thought | deep property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Peter St. not said here | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | Peter St. not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | must | thought | God | 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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