Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 51
Iváshko met the three-headed dragon, who asked him: “Where are you going, sturdy youth?”
Who acts: Iváshko, headed dragon · What happens: meet, ask, go · To what, where: headed dragon, Iváshko, sturdy youth · 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 (Iváshko, headed dragon), 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 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 headed | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 6 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragon | amod |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 going | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 met | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 youth | punct |
| 19 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 youth | amod |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Iváshko | the headed dragon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the headed dragon | Iváshko | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Iváshko | sturdy youth | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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