Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 132
Then the King looked at them and said: “Who is your father?”
Who acts: King · What happens: look, say, be · To what, where: father · 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 (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 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 father | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 father | cop |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the King | then | at brothers = brother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your father | Who nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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