Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 112
So he quietly asked the coachman what his man had done with the lady, and thought: “Well, I don’t mind!
Who acts: master, man · What happens: ask, do, think, not mind · To what, where: coachman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coachman | det |
| 6 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 done | obj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 man | nmod:poss |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 coachman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 lady | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 mind | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 mind | punct |
| 20 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 25 mind | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Well | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 mind | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mind | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 mind | advmod |
| 25 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | master | the coachman | quietly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coachman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | master's man | the coachman | with the lady | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | master not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | master | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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