Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 44
As soon as he was at the outside, he met the fair maiden, who asked: “Have you got the horse?”
Who acts: Petrúsha, fair maiden, you · What happens: be, meet, ask, get · To what, where: outside, horse · 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 (Petrúsha, fair maiden, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 met | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 outside | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 outside | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 outside | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 outside | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 outside | det |
| 8 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 outside | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 maiden | amod |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 20 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 got | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Petrúsha | the outside | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Petrúsha | soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the fair maiden | who nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present | you | the horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
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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