Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 125
And he said to the third daughter, “Dress yourself prettily and stand on the steps.”
Who acts: man · What happens: say, dress, stand · To what, where: third 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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 daughter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dress | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dress | punct |
| 10 | Dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 Dress | obj |
| 12 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 10 Dress | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stand | cc |
| 14 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Dress | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 steps | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 steps | det |
| 17 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stand | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dress | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | the third daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dress in a quote | infinitive | the third daughter = daughter | prettily property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | infinitive | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
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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