Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 75
So he began to think, “How can I cure her of this undesirable habit?”
Who acts: husband · What happens: begin, think, cure · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cure | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cure | punct |
| 8 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 cure | advmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cure | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 cure | nsubj |
| 11 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cure | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 habit | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 habit | det |
| 15 | undesirable | undesirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 habit | amod |
| 16 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cure | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | husband | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | husband not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cure in a quote | can | husband | wife | of this undesirable habit | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source of habit=Theme |
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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