Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 161
After the battle she rode out to meet Iván Tsarévich, and asked him: “How can I thank you?”
Who acts: Marfa, Woodsprite · What happens: ride out, meet, ask, thank · To what, where: Iván, 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 (Marfa, Woodsprite), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 rode | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rode | advcl |
| 9 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 10 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Iván | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
| 17 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 thank | advmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 thank | aux |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 thank | nsubj |
| 20 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rode | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 thank | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride out | past | Marfa | after the battle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Marfa not said here | Iván | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Marfa not said here | Iván | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | can | the Woodsprite = woodsprite | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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