Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 103
Once they came to a village and they asked a rich peasant for a bed.
Who acts: Christ · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: village, rich peasant
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christ), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 peasant | det |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peasant | amod |
| 12 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Christ | a village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Christ | a rich peasant | for a bed | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient |
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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