Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 54
Then she asked: “What do I smell there?” and wanted to put on her feathers again, but could not find them anywhere.
Who acts: mother · What happens: ask, smell, want, put, not find · To what, where: feathers · 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 (mother), 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 | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 smell | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 smell | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 smell | obj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 smell | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 smell | nsubj |
| 9 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 smell | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 smell | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 smell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | cc |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 feathers | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 find | advmod |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 find | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | mother | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | smell in a quote | present · do-support | mother | there | What obj | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | want | past | mother not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | mother's feathers | again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on feather=Destination | |||
| 5 | not find | could | mother not said here | feathers = feather | anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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