Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 42

Then the father asked his youngest daughter, and she answered, “Evidently this must be my lot: I will go and marry him and see what God shall give.”

Who acts: father, animal, this, God · What happens: ask, answer, be, go, marry, see · To what, where: youngest daughter, lot, father · 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 (father, animal, this, God), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	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	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 answered	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lot	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 lot	punct
14	Evidently	evidently	ADV	_	19 lot	advmod
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 lot	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lot	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 lot	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lot	nmod:poss
19	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 go	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 marry	cc
25	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 marry	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 go	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 give	obj
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 give	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the father		father's youngest daughter	then		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	animal					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	must	this	my lot			my nmod:poss; evidently property	tree rules
4	go in a quote	future	the father = father					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	marry in a quote	infinitive	the father = father not said here	father				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	see in a quote	infinitive	the father = father not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	give in a quote	shall	God				what obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 42

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 42