Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 113
She took it and asked it: “Tell me how to get the Singing-Tree and the Water of Life.”
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, ask, tell, get · To what, where: summit, me, Singing Tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 asked | cc |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tell | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tell | punct |
| 9 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Tell | iobj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 get | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Tell | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tree | det |
| 15 | Singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Singing | punct |
| 17 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Water | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Water | det |
| 20 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tree | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Life | case |
| 22 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Water | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | girl | summit | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | girl not said here | summit | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Singing Tree and the Water of Life | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
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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