Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 8
[18] “Whither are you going? and whence do you come?”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, come · To what, where: 18
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 18 | punct |
| 2 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 18 | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 5 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 going | advmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 18 | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 18 | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 11 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 come | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 18 | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 18 | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 18 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · do-support | you | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/12/8/