Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 1
When they reached the heath Márya Tsarévna said: “Come, little sister, I will find a cushion for your head.”
Who acts: they, Márya · What happens: reach, say, come, find · To what, where: heath, little sister, cushion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, Márya), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heath | det |
| 5 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Márya | flat |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 11 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sister | punct |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sister | amod |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Come | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cushion | det |
| 20 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | they | the heath | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Márya | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | little sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | future | Márya | a cushion | for your head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cushion=Theme for head=Beneficiary |
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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