Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 94
One day an old, old man was wandering about the earth, and he asked for a night’s shelter from the peasant.
Who acts: old old man, man · What happens: wonder, ask
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old old man, man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandering | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandering | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wandering | aux |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandering | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wandering | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 shelter | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shelter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 night | case |
| 21 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 peasant | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 peasant | det |
| 24 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shelter | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | a old old man | day | about the earth | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about earth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | man | for a night's shelter from the peasant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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