Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 113
“Lie there and freeze; that’s the way to become master of Mark’s wealth!”
Who acts: you, that · What happens: lie, freeze, be, become · To what, where: way, master
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 2 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Lie | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 freeze | cc |
| 5 | freeze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Lie | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | nsubj |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lie | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 become | mark |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wealth | case |
| 15 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Mark | case |
| 17 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 master | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | imperative | you not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | freeze in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | master of Mark's wealth | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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