Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 77
“Go and fetch me water—I feel thirsty,” the Tsarévich asked him a second time.
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: go, fetch, feel, ask · To what, where: water, Tsarévich, servant · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fetch | cc |
| 4 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fetch | obj |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetch | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 10 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tsarévich | det |
| 14 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | 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 | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | the Tsarévich = tsarévich | thirsty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Tsarévich | servant | time | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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