Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 26
That she will never solve all her life long, for every riddle she has solved at once, for she had only to look in her magical book; and she would then have your head cut off.”
Who acts: That, Anna, head · What happens: not solve, solve, have, look, cut off · To what, where: life, riddle, head
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Anna, head), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 solve | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 solve | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 solve | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 solve | advmod |
| 5 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 life | det:predet |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 solve | obj |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 solve | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 riddle | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 riddle | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 riddle | det |
| 13 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 solve | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 solved | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 solved | aux |
| 16 | solved | solve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 riddle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 solved | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 had | case |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 solved | conj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 look | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 book | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 book | nmod:poss |
| 28 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 book | amod |
| 29 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 have | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 have | advmod |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 solve | conj |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 have | xcomp |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 cut | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 solve | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 solve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not solve | future | That | Anna's life | for every riddle; Anna nsubj; long property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic | |||
| 2 | solve | present · perfect | Anna | every riddle not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Anna | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Anna not said here | in Anna's magical book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in book=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | would | Anna | your head | then | tree rules | |||
| 6 | cut off | participle | your head not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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