Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 40
Why, it tumbles down if you look at it!”
Who acts: nag, you · What happens: tumble down, look
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 (nag, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tumbles | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tumbles | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tumbles | nsubj |
| 4 | tumbles | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 tumbles | compound:prt |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumble down | present | nag | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | look | present | you | at nag | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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