Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 106

“Come now,” the poor man said, “I will go and see what my stretch of land looks like.”

Who acts: poor man, stretch · What happens: come, say, go, see, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, stretch), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 looks	obj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stretch	nmod:poss
19	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looks	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 land	case
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stretch	nmod
22	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 see	ccomp
23	like	like	SCONJ	_	22 looks	mark
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive		now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the poor man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	future	the poor man = man			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see in a quote	infinitive	the poor man = man not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	look in a quote	present	my stretch of land		what obj	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 106