Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 60
So she answered: “Well, please do not eat me—it is not the proper thing.
Who acts: mare, drop · What happens: answer, not eat, not be · To what, where: mare, proper thing · 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 (mare, drop), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 eat | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 11 eat | discourse |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 eat | advmod |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 thing | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thing | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 thing | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 thing | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | mare | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not eat in a quote | infinitive · do-support | mare | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | drop | the proper thing | tree rules |
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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