Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 73
“Go yet farther into the golden realm; there there is a maiden who is yet much fairer than I!” the girl said, and she gave him a golden ring.
Who acts: Go maiden, girl · What happens: go, be, say, give · To what, where: golden realm, Go maiden, golden ring, maiden · 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 (Go maiden, girl), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 maiden | compound |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 farther | advmod |
| 4 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 Go | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 realm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 realm | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 realm | amod |
| 8 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 maiden | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fairer | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fairer | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fairer | cop |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 fairer | advmod |
| 19 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 said | ccomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 I | case |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fairer | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 fairer | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fairer | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gave | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gave | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | nsubj |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | iobj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 ring | det |
| 33 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ring | amod |
| 34 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | the golden realm | yet | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into realm=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a Go maiden | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a Go maiden | yet | than the girl = girl; who nsubj; fair property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | give | past | girl | a golden ring | maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=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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