Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 89
So they sailed up to the shore in a light boat and began to ask him and to inquire of him.
Who acts: animal · What happens: sail up, begin, ask, inquire · To what, where: light boat, crew
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 (animal), 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 | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sailed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 boat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 10 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boat | amod |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 ask | mark |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inquire | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 inquire | mark |
| 19 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ask | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 inquire | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail up | past | animal | a light boat | to the shore | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | begin | past | animal not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | animal not said here | crew | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | animal not said here | of crew | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient |
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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