Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 19
But now I shall ask you, how did you manage to do all the work I gave you?”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: ask, manage, do, give · To what, where: you, work
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 (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ask | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 manage | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 manage | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 manage | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 manage | nsubj |
| 11 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 manage | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 work | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 work | det |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 work | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 manage | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | shall | I | you | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | manage | past · do-support | you | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | all work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | give | past | I | all work not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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