Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 102
Now Vasíli heard of this, went up and asked the master of the ship, “Let me go to the King; possibly I can chase away the Crow and his wife.”
Who acts: Vasíli · What happens: hear, go up, ask, let, go, chase away · To what, where: master, Vasíli, Crow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasíli), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 master | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Let | punct |
| 18 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Let | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Let | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 chase | punct |
| 25 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 28 chase | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 chase | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 chase | aux |
| 28 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 chase | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Crow | det |
| 31 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chase | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wife | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wife | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Crow | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 chase | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Vasíli | now | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go up | past | Vasíli not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Vasíli not said here | the master of the ship | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | Vasíli | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | Vasíli not said here | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | chase away in a quote | can | Vasíli | the Crow and Vasíli's wife | away, possibly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=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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