Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 77
“Fair maiden, give me to eat and drink, and I will tell you my news.”
Who acts: Fair maiden, Iváshko · What happens: give, eat, drink, tell · To what, where: Iváshko, news, you · 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 (Fair maiden, Iváshko), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 eat | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 news | nmod:poss |
| 18 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | Fair maiden | Iváshko | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | Fair maiden not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | Fair maiden not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Iváshko | my news | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=Topic |
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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