Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 25
Go to the rich peasant and ask for the three pecks of malt.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, ask
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), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 peasant | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 peasant | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 peasant | amod |
| 5 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ask | cc |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 pecks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pecks | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pecks | nummod |
| 11 | pecks | peck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 malt | case |
| 13 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pecks | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | to the rich peasant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | for the three pecks of malt | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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