Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 72
One day, when they were older, they asked the gardener to let them build themselves a little home behind the town.
Who acts: sons · What happens: be, ask, let, build · To what, where: gardener, sons · 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 (sons), 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 | 10 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 older | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 older | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 older | cop |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 day | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gardener | det |
| 12 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 build | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 home | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 build | obj |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 home | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sons = son | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | sons = son | the gardener | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent gardener=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | sons = son | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | build | infinitive | sons = son not said here | sons = son | a little home obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary home=Product |
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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