Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 76
“Whither art thou going, fair youth; and what do you seek?”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, seek · To what, where: fair youth
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 | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 art | advmod |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | obj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 art | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 youth | punct |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youth | amod |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 seek | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seek | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 seek | obj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seek | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seek | nsubj |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 art | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | gerund | fair youth | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | present · do-support | you | what obj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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