Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 22
One day her parents wrote to her: “Try to discover any one who is stronger than the dragon.”
Who acts: parents, one · What happens: write, try, discover, be · To what, where: Tsarévna, one · 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 (parents, one), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parents | nmod:poss |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 5 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrote | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Try | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Try | punct |
| 10 | Try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wrote | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 discover | mark |
| 12 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Try | xcomp |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discover | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stronger | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stronger | cop |
| 17 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 dragon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dragon | det |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stronger | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Try | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Tsarévna's parents | Tsarévna | day | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | try in a quote | infinitive | Tsarévna's parents not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | discover not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Tsarévna's parents not said here | any one | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | any one | than the dragon; strong property | 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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