Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 111
One daughter asked, “Buy me some red cloth for a sarafan.”
Who acts: One daughter · What happens: ask, buy · To what, where: red cloth, One daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 daughter | nummod |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Buy | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Buy | punct |
| 6 | Buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Buy | iobj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 cloth | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cloth | amod |
| 10 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Buy | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sarafan | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sarafan | det |
| 13 | sarafan | sarafan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Buy | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Buy | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | One daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | infinitive | some red cloth | One daughter = daughter | for a sarafan | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary cloth=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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