Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 34
Go and buy me some of the very best flax; I should like to spin.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, buy, like, spin · To what, where: some, me
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 (you, I), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 buy | cc |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | iobj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 buy | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 flax | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flax | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 best | advmod |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 flax | amod |
| 10 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 some | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spin | mark |
| 16 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 like | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy | infinitive | you not said here | some of the best flax | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary some=Theme | |||
| 3 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spin not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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