Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 136
Then the poor man also asked him for a horse-collar: this the rich brother refused, and became angry.
Who acts: poor man, this · What happens: ask, refuse, become · To what, where: Brother
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 man, this), 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 | 6 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 collar | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 collar | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collar | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 12 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brother | det |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brother | amod |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 refused | conj |
| 22 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the poor man | Brother | then | for a horse collar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | refuse | past | this | the rich brother nsubj | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | become | past | this not said here | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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