Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 34
The witch asked him to give her her brother, but the Sun would not.
Who acts: witch · What happens: ask, give · To what, where: meantime, brother, witch
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 would | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 would | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 would | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 would | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the witch | meantime | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | witch's brother | witch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient brother=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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