Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 93
Go at once to the smith and ask him to forge you young, and you won’t know yourself!”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, ask, forge, not know · To what, where: smith, husband, you, yourself
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 (you), 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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Go | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 smith | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smith | det |
| 6 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ask | cc |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 forge | mark |
| 11 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 forge | obj |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forge | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 know | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | 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 | the smith | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smith=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | forge not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | young property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product | |||
| 4 | not know | future | you | yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yourself=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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