Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 23
But Márya Tsarévna asked him: “Father, do at least give me a little tiny bit out of the cow!”
Who acts: Márya · What happens: ask, give · To what, where: him, little tiny bit, Márya, least · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Márya | flat |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Father | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Father | punct |
| 8 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 give | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 least | case |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 give | obl |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bit | amod |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bit | amod |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 cow | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cow | det |
| 22 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Márya | him = he | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · do-support | a little tiny bit | Márya | least | out the cow; Father vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme at least=Asset |
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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