Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 74
Then the Tsarévich said to his servant, “Go and fetch me water.”
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: say, go, fetch · To what, where: servant, water, Tsarévich · 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 (Tsarévich), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévich | det |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 servant | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fetch | cc |
| 12 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 Go | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fetch | obj |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tsarévich | son's servant | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | water | the Tsarévich = tsarévich | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=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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