Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 96
Then the King began to ask him, “What sort of a man are you?”
Who acts: King · What happens: begin, ask, be, sort · To what, where: sort, King, man · 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 (King), 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 | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sort | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sort | punct |
| 10 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sort | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 are | nsubj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the King | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the King not said here | what sort of a man | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | King | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | a man | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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