Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 6
“Still, I should like to ask you of some things I saw.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: like, ask, see · To what, where: you, things
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 (Bába), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 2 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 like | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Still | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 like | aux |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 like | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ask | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | Bába | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Bába not said here | you | of some things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Bába | some things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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