Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 121
And the poor smith answered that the master had wished her a long life.
Who acts: poor smith · What happens: answer, wish · To what, where: master · 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 (poor smith), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smith | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smith | amod |
| 4 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wished | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wished | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wished | aux |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 life | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the poor smith | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | past · perfect · passive | the master | a long life obl:unmarked; lady obj | tree rules |
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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