Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 70
“But, fair maiden, you have given me nothing to eat or drink, and you ask my news!”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, eat, drink, ask · To what, where: fair maiden, news
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 given | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 maiden | punct |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 maiden | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 given | obj |
| 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 | or | or | 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 news | nmod:poss |
| 21 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | 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 · passive | fair maiden | you nsubj; me obj; nothing obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | my news | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=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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