Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 72
Then he told her that he was seeking a bride, and he asked her if she would be the bride.
Who acts: maiden, bride · What happens: tell, seek, ask, be · To what, where: bride · 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 (maiden, bride), 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 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 seeking | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seeking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seeking | aux |
| 8 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 told | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeking | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 bride | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bride | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bride | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bride | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bride | det |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | maiden | bride | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | seek | past · progressive | maiden | a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | maiden | bride | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | would | bride | the bride | 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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