Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 116
The old man went home, and the old woman asked, “Where are the groats?”
Who acts: old man, old woman, groats · What happens: go, ask, be · 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 (old man, old woman, groats), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Where | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Where | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 asked | advmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Where | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 groats | det |
| 17 | groats | groat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Where | nsubj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 Where | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the groats | where property | 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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