Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 11
Then Fílyushka climbed up on to the roof, and saw some geese flying, and called out to them, “Lend me your wings; I want wings to carry me home.”
Who acts: Fílyushka, geese, wings · What happens: climb up, see, fly, call out, lend, want · To what, where: roof, geese, wings, Fílyushka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fílyushka, geese, wings), 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 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | Fílyushka | Fílyushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 geese | det |
| 13 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 geese | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 climbed | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 called | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lend | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lend | punct |
| 23 | Lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 climbed | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 Lend | iobj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wings | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Lend | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 want | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 want | nsubj |
| 29 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 30 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 want | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 carry | mark |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 want | xcomp |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | obj |
| 34 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 carry | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | Fílyushka | the roof | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | see | past | Fílyushka not said here | some geese | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goose=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | some geese not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | Fílyushka not said here | geese = goose | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | lend in a quote | infinitive | Fílyushka not said here | your wings | Fílyushka | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wing=Theme | |||
| 6 | want in a quote | present | Fílyushka | wings | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | carry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | wings not said here | Fílyushka | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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