Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 170
And they sent a little devil-boy to fetch the silver.
Who acts: ounces · What happens: send, fetch · To what, where: little devil boy, silver
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 (ounces), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boy | amod |
| 6 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boy | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 devil | punct |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fetch | mark |
| 10 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 silver | det |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fetch | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | ounces = ounce | a little devil boy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | ounces = ounce not said here | the silver | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=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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