Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 125
The eldest asked for a new coat, and the next one also asked for a new coat; but the youngest one only took a sheet of paper and sketched a flower on it: “Bring me, _bátyushka_,[51] a flower like this!”
Who acts: next one, youngest one · What happens: ask, take, sketch, bring · To what, where: sheet, flower, bátyushka, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next one, youngest 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 asked | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 asked | amod |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 coat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coat | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coat | amod |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 asked | advmod |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 coat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 coat | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coat | amod |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 took | advmod |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sheet | det |
| 27 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 paper | case |
| 29 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sheet | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sketched | cc |
| 31 | sketched | sketch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 flower | det |
| 33 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sketched | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sketched | obl |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 Bring | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Bring | punct |
| 38 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 sketched | parataxis |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 Bring | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bátyushka | punct |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 bátyushka | punct |
| 42 | bátyushka | bátyushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 38 Bring | obj |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 Bring | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 51 | punct |
| 45 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 46 51 | punct |
| 46 | 51 | 51 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 took | obl |
| 47 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 46 51 | punct |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 flower | det |
| 49 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 50 | like | like | ADP | _ | 51 this | case |
| 51 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 took | obl |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | for a new coat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the next one | for a new coat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the youngest one | a sheet of paper | like this; 51 obl; a flower obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheet=Theme flower=Destination | |||
| 4 | sketch | past | the youngest one not said here | a flower | flower | tree rules | |||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | bátyushka | merchant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bátyushka=Theme |
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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