Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 34
“They were too old, mother; much too tough a snack for your teeth.”
Who acts: men · What happens: be
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 (men), 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 old | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 old | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 old | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 old | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 tough | punct |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 tough | advmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 tough | advmod |
| 11 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 old | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snack | det |
| 13 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tough | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 teeth | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tough | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | men = man | mother conj; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | men = man not said here | for your teeth; a snack conj | tree rules |
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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