Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 29

And Alyósha began to grow up, so he asked his mother and father for their blessing, for he wished to go and to fare into the open field.

Who acts: Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, streets · What happens: begin, grow up, ask, wish, go, fare · To what, where: mother, open field

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 (Alyósha, ALYÓSHA, streets), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 grow	mark
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grow	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 asked	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 father	cc
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 blessing	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 blessing	nmod:poss
17	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 wished	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fare	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fare	mark
26	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 field	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 field	det
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 field	amod
30	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fare	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	Alyósha			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow up	to-infinitive	Alyósha not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	ALYÓSHA = alyósha	ALYÓSHA's mother and father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
4	wish	past	ALYÓSHA = alyósha			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	ALYÓSHA = alyósha not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fare	to-infinitive	ALYÓSHA = alyósha not said here		the open field	tree rules
7	bless		streets = street			nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 29