Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 36
Iván Tsarévich asked if he might eat one of her chicks.
Who acts: Iván, bird · What happens: ask, eat · To what, where: one
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 (Iván, bird), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chicks | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chicks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Iván | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat a condition, not said to happen | might | bird | one of Iván's chicks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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