Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 114
The old fellow bowed low and asked for alms.
Who acts: old fellow · What happens: bow, ask · To what, where: old fellow
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fellow), 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 | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fellow | acl |
| 5 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bowed | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 alms | case |
| 9 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asked | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | participle | the old fellow not said here | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old fellow | for alms | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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