Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 60
“Oh, fair maiden, you have given me nothing to eat and drink, and you ask me for my news!”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, eat, drink, ask · To what, where: nothing, Iváshko
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 given | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 given | iobj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nothing | acl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drink | cc |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ask | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ask | iobj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 news | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 news | nmod:poss |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · perfect | you | nothing | Iváshko | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nothing=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | Iváshko | for my news | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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