Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 108
The Woodsprite had three daughters, and he asked the eldest: “What will you give Iván Tsarévich for saving me out of the iron tower?”
Who acts: Woodsprite, you · What happens: have, ask, give, save · To what, where: three daughters, Iván, Tsarévich, iron tower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodsprite, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Woodsprite | det |
| 2 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 daughters | nummod |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eldest | det |
| 11 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 give | obj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 18 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Iván | flat |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 saving | mark |
| 21 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 give | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 saving | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 tower | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tower | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tower | det |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tower | compound |
| 27 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saving | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Woodsprite | three daughters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Woodsprite | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | you | Iván | What obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient iván=Theme | |||
| 4 | save in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the Tsarévich = tsarévich | the iron tower | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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