Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 97
Also in ‘A Cure for Story-telling.’
What happens: tell · To what, where: Cure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 9 telling | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Cure | case |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cure | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Cure | det |
| 5 | Cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 telling | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Story | case |
| 7 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cure | nmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cure | punct |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 telling | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a Cure for Story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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