Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 24
“Look, this is a barrel: you only have to knock it, and a soldier leaps out of its mouth.
Who acts: you, this, soldier · What happens: look, be, have, knock, leap out · To what, where: barrel, mouth
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, this, soldier), 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 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 barrel | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 barrel | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 barrel | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 barrel | det |
| 7 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 knock | mark |
| 13 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knock | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaps | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leaps | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 soldier | det |
| 18 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaps | nsubj |
| 19 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaps | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | a barrel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | knock in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | barrel | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leap out in a quote | present | a soldier | soldier's mouth | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Trajectory |
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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