Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 15
And the peasant answered: “My Lords Justices, do you think it out for yourselves, however could one get a golden stirrup out of a grey-haired peasant?
Who acts: peasant, Lords Justices, one · What happens: answer, think out, get · To what, where: peasant, golden stirrup · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, Lords Justices, one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Justices | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Lords | Lord | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Justices | compound |
| 9 | Justices | justice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 think | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Justices | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 think | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 think | compound:prt |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 yourselves | case |
| 17 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 think | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 19 | however | however | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 21 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stirrup | det |
| 24 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stirrup | amod |
| 25 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 peasant | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 peasant | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 peasant | det |
| 29 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 haired | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 grey | punct |
| 31 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 peasant | amod |
| 32 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | the peasant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think out speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | My Lords Justices | peasant | for yourselves; you nsubj | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | could | one | a golden stirrup | out a haired peasant; however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stirrup=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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