Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 14

He went on to the field, and he saw a mouse running: “My friend, my dear gossip, give me a coin; I will be of service to you.”

Who acts: money, mouse, friend, my · What happens: go on, see, run, give, be, gossip · To what, where: mouse, coin, money, you · 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 (money, mouse, friend, my), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 mouse	acl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
16	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gossip	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 gossip	nmod:poss
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gossip	amod
21	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 friend	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 friend	punct
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 coin	det
26	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 service	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 service	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 service	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 service	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 service	case
32	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 service	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	money			to the field	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	money	a mouse			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
3	run	gerund	a mouse not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give in a quote	infinitive	My friend and my dear gossip	a coin	money		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient coin=Theme
5	is in a quote	future	money		you	of service	tree rules
6	gossip in a quote		my				nom gossip «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 14