Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 139
“What a horrible idea, brother!
To what, where: horrible idea
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: 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 | _ | 5 idea | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 idea | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 4 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 idea | amod |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 idea | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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