Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 21
Then they came to the village, and the huntsman began to ask whether anyone had lost a maiden.
Who acts: Hail, huntsman · What happens: come, begin, ask, lose · To what, where: village, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hail, huntsman), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 huntsman | det |
| 10 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ask | mark |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 lost | mark |
| 15 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ask | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 maiden | det |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lost | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Hail | the village | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the huntsman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the huntsman not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect · passive | anyone | a maiden obj | tree rules |
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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