Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 80
The servant had not lied; he did not know them, and she was angry with him and did not say.
Who acts: servant, master · What happens: have, not lie, not know, be, not say · To what, where: teeth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (servant, master), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lied | advmod |
| 5 | lied | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 know | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 angry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 angry | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 angry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 angry | cop |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 angry | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 say | cc |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 say | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 say | advmod |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the servant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not lie | participle | the servant not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | servant | teeth = tooth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | master | with servant; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | the servant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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