Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 105
So the old man answered him: “Never mind, Ivánushka, cheer up!
Who acts: old man · What happens: answer, not mind, cheer up · To what, where: Iván, Ivánushka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 9 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 mind | advmod |
| 10 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ivánushka | punct |
| 12 | Ivánushka | Ivánushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cheer | punct |
| 14 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mind | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 cheer | compound:prt |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the old man | Iván | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | Ivánushka | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ivánushka=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cheer up in a quote | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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