Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 93
Simply ask for the keg which is lying in his cellar.”
Who acts: you, keg · What happens: ask, lie · To what, where: cellar
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 (you, keg), 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 | Simply | simply | ADV | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 keg | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 keg | det |
| 5 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lying | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lying | aux |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 keg | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cellar | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | for the keg; simply property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | present · progressive | the keg | father's cellar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location |
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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