Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 22
“My beloved son,” answered the old man, “where shall I find it?”
Who acts: beloved son · What happens: answer, find · To what, where: old man, luck · 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 (beloved son), 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 | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 find | advmod |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | My beloved son | the old man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | shall | My beloved son = son | luck | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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