Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 80
“But who will look after the geese?”
What happens: look
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: 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 | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 geese | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 geese | det |
| 8 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | future | after the geese | who nsubj | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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