Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 77
So the husband ran out to him and said, “Can you tell tales?”
Who acts: husband, you · What happens: run out, say, tell · To what, where: man, tales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 husband | det |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 12 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tell | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | the husband | man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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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