Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 54
“What do you want all these tubs and pails for?” they asked him.
Who acts: peasant, tubs · What happens: want, ask · To what, where: tubs, peasant · 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 (peasant, tubs), 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 | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 tubs | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 tubs | det |
| 8 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 want | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pails | cc |
| 10 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tubs | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 tubs | case |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · do-support | peasant | all tubs and pails | What obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme tub=Attribute | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | tubs = tub | peasant | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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