Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 16

Then he went to the forest, and a beetle crept up and said, “My friend, my dear gossip, give me a coin; I will be of service to you.”

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	money			the forest	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	creep up	past	a beetle						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	a beetle not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	infinitive	My friend and my dear gossip	a coin	a beetle = beetle				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient coin=Theme
5	is in a quote	future	a beetle = beetle		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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 16