Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 101
One day Iváshechko asked his mother and father, “Please may I go and catch fish?”
Who acts: Iváshechko · What happens: ask, go, catch · To what, where: mother, fish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iváshechko), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Iváshechko | Iváshechko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 father | cc |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 14 go | discourse |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 catch | cc |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Iváshechko | Iváshechko's mother and father | day | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | may | Iváshechko | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | infinitive | Iváshechko not said here | fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
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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