Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 134
One day the poor brother came to the rich and asked him for a horse to fetch wood out of the forest.
Who acts: poor brother · What happens: come, ask, fetch · To what, where: rich, Brother, wood, forest
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother), 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 | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rich | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rich | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fetch | mark |
| 17 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | advcl |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetch | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetch | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the poor brother | the rich | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rich=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the poor brother not said here | Brother | for a horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | the poor brother not said here | wood | the forest | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
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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