Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 23
Soon afterwards the Arab Prince wrote to him for the third time and asked for the hand of his youngest daughter.
Who acts: Arab Prince · What happens: write, ask · To what, where: father
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 (Arab Prince), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 wrote | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 4 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Prince | amod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wrote | nsubj |
| 6 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wrote | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrote | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrote | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 daughter | amod |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the Arab Prince | father | time | afterwards property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Arab Prince not said here | for the hand of father's youngest daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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