Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 90
Why, she will lay us an egg and will bring us chicks; we can sell the chicks and then buy bread.”
Who acts: hen, we · What happens: lay, bring, sell, buy · To what, where: us, chicks, bread
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen, we), 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 | 5 lay | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | aux |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | obj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 egg | det |
| 8 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lay | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sell | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sell | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sell | aux |
| 17 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lay | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chicks | det |
| 19 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sell | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 buy | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 buy | advmod |
| 22 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sell | conj |
| 23 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 buy | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | future | hen | us | a egg obj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent we=Theme egg=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | future | hen not said here | chicks | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination chick=Theme | |||
| 3 | sell | can | we | the chicks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | we not said here | bread | then | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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