Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 120
The old man came back home and said to the eldest daughter: “You must dress nicely and go out on the steps.”
Who acts: old man, eldest daughter · What happens: come back, say, dress, go out · To what, where: eldest daughter · 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, eldest daughter), 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 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 11 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 dress | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dress | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 dress | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 dress | aux |
| 17 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 17 dress | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dress | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 steps | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 steps | det |
| 24 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dress | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the old man | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man not said here | the eldest daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dress in a quote | must | the eldest daughter = daughter | nicely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go out in a quote | infinitive | the eldest daughter = daughter not said here | on the steps; out property | vn interact-36.6 «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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