Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 19
Then she began to ask her father to give her his blessing and to wed her to Donotknow.
Who acts: monster, Donotknow · What happens: begin, ask, give, wed, bless · To what, where: father, blessing, monster, Donotknow
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster, Donotknow), 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 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wed | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wed | mark |
| 15 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Donotknow | case |
| 18 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | monster | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | monster not said here | monster's father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | monster not said here | Donotknow's blessing | monster | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 4 | wed | to-infinitive | monster not said here | monster | Donotknow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to donotknow=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | bless | Donotknow | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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