Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 126
Then the same young man who had acted as a hand to the smith came and asked: “Where are they taking you, master?”
Who acts: same young man, SMITH · What happens: act, come, ask, take · To what, where: you · 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 (same young man, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 acted | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 acted | aux |
| 8 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 acted | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 smith | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smith | det |
| 14 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 acted | obl |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 taking | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 taking | punct |
| 20 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 taking | advmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 taking | aux |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taking | nsubj |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 taking | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 master | punct |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | past · perfect | the same young man | as a hand; to the smith | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as hand=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the same young man | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the same young man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | present · progressive | SMITH | you | master conj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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