Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 29
“Well, look you to it,” the fair maiden said; “the devils are going to give you gold and silver—do not take any of it.
Who acts: fair maiden, devils · What happens: look, say, go, give, not take · To what, where: you, palace, gold, any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, devils), 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 look | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maiden | amod |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 devils | det |
| 17 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 silver | cc |
| 25 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gold | conj |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 take | advmod |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 any | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | you | palace | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fair maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the devils | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the devils not said here | gold and silver | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient gold=Theme | |||
| 5 | not take in a quote | infinitive · do-support | any of palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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