Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 141
“No, fair maiden, I cannot sleep.
Who acts: boy · What happens: not sleep · To what, where: fair maiden
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 maiden | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 fair | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 maiden | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sleep | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sleep | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep in a quote | can | the boy = boy | fair maiden not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=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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