Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 2
“What on earth do you mean, you vile thief, by taking money and not giving up the golden stirrup?”
Who acts: you · What happens: mean, thief, take, not give up · To what, where: money, golden stirrup
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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 earth | case |
| 4 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thief | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 thief | nsubj |
| 10 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thief | amod |
| 11 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 taking | mark |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 mean | parataxis |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 giving | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 giving | advmod |
| 18 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 taking | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 giving | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stirrup | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stirrup | amod |
| 22 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 giving | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | thief in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take in a quote | gerund | money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not give up in a quote | gerund | the golden stirrup | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=Source |
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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