Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 60
So the merchant’s son went up to his attic, and his stepmother came and said to him, “Would you not like to have a steam bath?
Who acts: son, stepmother · What happens: go up, come, say, not like, have · To what, where: son, steam bath · 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 (son, stepmother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 attic | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 attic | nmod:poss |
| 10 | attic | attic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 22 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 like | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 like | nsubj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 like | advmod |
| 25 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 like | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bath | det |
| 29 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bath | compound |
| 30 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the merchant's son | to son's attic | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | son's stepmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the merchant's son not said here | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not like in a quote | would | son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | a steam bath | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient |
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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