Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 89
Nicholas thought, and again went to the peasant, told him to buy two tapers, one big and one small, and gave him instructions.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: think, go, tell, buy, give · To what, where: NICHOLAS, two tapers, instructions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nicholas), 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 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 peasant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 buy | mark |
| 14 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 tapers | nummod |
| 16 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 buy | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 big | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 big | nummod |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 told | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 small | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 small | nummod |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 big | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | iobj |
| 27 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gave | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Nicholas | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | again | to the peasant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Nicholas not said here | NICHOLAS | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nicholas not said here | two tapers | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | Nicholas not said here | instructions | NICHOLAS | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient instruction=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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