Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 106
My stepmother’s daughters sent me to you to ask for fire.”
Who acts: daughters · What happens: send, ask · To what, where: me, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 stepmother | case |
| 4 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | My stepmother's daughters | me | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | My stepmother's daughters not said here | for fire | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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