Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 115
So the Fool smiled and said, “Buy me, my own father, a silver saucer and a crystal apple.”
Who acts: Fool · What happens: smile, say, buy · To what, where: Fool · 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 (Fool), 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 smiled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fool | det |
| 3 | Fool | Fool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 smiled | nsubj |
| 4 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Buy | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Buy | punct |
| 9 | Buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Buy | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 father | amod |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Buy | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saucer | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 saucer | det |
| 17 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saucer | amod |
| 18 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 apple | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 apple | det |
| 21 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 apple | amod |
| 22 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiled | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the Fool | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fool not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | buy in a quote | infinitive | the Fool = fool | my own father and a crystal apple parataxis | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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