Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 88
Suddenly, from somewhere or other, the fair maiden appeared and said, “Health to you, good youth: the seven years are over.
Who acts: fair maiden, seven years · What happens: appear, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, seven years), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 somewhere | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 somewhere | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 somewhere | case |
| 4 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 appeared | advmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 other | cc |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 somewhere | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 somewhere | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maiden | amod |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 appeared | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Health | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Health | punct |
| 16 | Health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 Health | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 youth | punct |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 youth | amod |
| 21 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Health | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 over | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 years | det |
| 24 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 over | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 over | cop |
| 27 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 appeared | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the fair maiden | somewhere property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fair maiden not said here | Health to you and good youth ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the seven years | over 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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