Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 36
But in her heart of hearts she kept thinking: “How could I postpone the date and get rid of my bridegroom?”
Who acts: Anna · What happens: keep, think, postpone, get · To what, where: heart, date · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Anna), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 kept | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 heart | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hearts | case |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heart | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 postpone | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 postpone | punct |
| 12 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 postpone | advmod |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 postpone | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 postpone | nsubj |
| 15 | postpone | postpone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thinking | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 date | det |
| 17 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 postpone | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 postpone | conj |
| 20 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bridegroom | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rid | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 postpone | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 postpone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Anna | Anna's heart of hearts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Anna not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | postpone in a quote | could | Anna | the date | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | Anna not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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