Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 21
Ask him for three pecks of malt, and we will brew the beer together.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: ask, brew · To what, where: man, beer
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 (you, we), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 pecks | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pecks | nummod |
| 5 | pecks | peck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ask | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 malt | case |
| 7 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pecks | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brew | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brew | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 brew | aux |
| 12 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beer | det |
| 14 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brew | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 brew | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 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 | man | for three pecks of malt | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | brew | future | we | the beer | together property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=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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