Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 144
Then he came up to his wife: “My dear wife, you don’t know that there is a treasure in the forest.
Who acts: angel, dear wife, treasure · What happens: come up, not know, be
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel, dear wife, treasure), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 10 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 is | mark |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 treasure | det |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 treasure | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | angel | then | to angel's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | My dear wife | you nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a treasure in the forest | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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