Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 136
He entered an eating-house and told the inn-keeper: “Take this goose and cook it for my supper, and I will give you another goose for your pains.
Who acts: wish, your · What happens: enter, tell, take, cook, give, pain · To what, where: eating house, inn keeper, goose, keeper, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wish, your), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 4 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 keeper | det |
| 10 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeper | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 inn | punct |
| 12 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Take | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Take | punct |
| 15 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | ccomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 goose | det |
| 17 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cook | cc |
| 19 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Take | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cook | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 supper | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 supper | nmod:poss |
| 23 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cook | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 give | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 give | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 give | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 give | aux |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Take | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 goose | det |
| 31 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 pains | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 pains | nmod:poss |
| 34 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 give | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | wish | a eating house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | wish not said here | the inn keeper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | this goose | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goose=Destination | |||||
| 4 | cook in a quote | infinitive | keeper | for my supper | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for supper=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | wish | another goose | you | for your pains | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient goose=Theme for pain=Asset | ||
| 6 | pain in a quote | your | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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