Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 46
Suddenly the same old devil appeared in front of him and asked: “What does your worship desire?”
Who acts: same old devil, your · What happens: appear, ask, do, desire · To what, where: front, worship desire · 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 (same old devil, 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devil | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 devil | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 devil | amod |
| 5 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 front | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeared | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 does | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 does | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 does | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 desire | nmod:poss |
| 18 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 desire | compound |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 does | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 does | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the same old devil | front of understanding | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the same old devil not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | your worship desire | What nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | desire in a quote | your | nom desire «feeling 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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