Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 25
So he came to her and said, “Go and find out from Koshchéy the Deathless where he got such a fine horse!”
Who acts: Márya · What happens: come, say, go, find out, get · To what, where: guest, Koshchéy, fine horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya), 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 | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 Go | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 find | compound:prt |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Koshchéy | case |
| 15 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Go | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Deathless | det |
| 17 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Koshchéy | appos |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 got | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Go | advcl |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 horse | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Márya | guest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Márya not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Koshchéy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from koshchéy=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | find out in a quote | infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | get in a quote | past | Márya | such fine horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
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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