Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 107
He ran up to his comrades, who asked him: “Where have you been, Potánka?”
Who acts: Tsarévna, comrades · What happens: run up, ask, be · To what, where: Tsarévna, Potánka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, comrades), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 comrades | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 6 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 comrades | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 been | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 been | punct |
| 13 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 have | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 been | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 Potánka | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Potánka | punct |
| 18 | Potánka | Potánka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 Potánka | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | Tsarévna | to Tsarévna's comrades result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to comrade=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Tsarévna's comrades | Tsarévna | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | participle | Potánka | tree rules |
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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