Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 18
And the soldier told them: “Bring me two smiths as fast as you can.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: tell, bring · To what, where: servants, two smiths, soldier · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bring | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bring | punct |
| 8 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Bring | obj |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 smiths | nummod |
| 11 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Bring | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 Bring | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fast | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the soldier | servants = servant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | two smiths | the soldier = soldier | fast property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination smith=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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