Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 114
And the Woodsprite asked his second daughter, “What will you give Iván Tsarévich for saving me out of the iron tower?”
Who acts: Woodsprite, second daughter · What happens: ask, give, save · To what, where: second daughter, Iván, Woodsprite, 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, second daughter), 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 | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodsprite | det |
| 3 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 give | obj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Iván | flat |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 saving | mark |
| 17 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 give | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 saving | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tower | det |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tower | compound |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saving | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Woodsprite | Woodsprite's second daughter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | Woodsprite's second daughter = daughter | Iván | What obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient iván=Theme | |||
| 3 | save in a quote | gerund | Woodsprite's second daughter = daughter not said here | the Woodsprite = woodsprite | 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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