Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 25
Then the King answered, “My daughter is already promised: if you wish, come yourself and you will see.”
Who acts: King, you · What happens: answer, promise, wish, come, see · To what, where: daughter, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, you), 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 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 promised | aux:pass |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 promised | advmod |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 wish | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | conj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 come | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · passive | My daughter | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | the King not said here | yourself | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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