Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 26
He asked the fair maiden, “Where are your saucer and the crystal apple?”
Who acts: man · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: fair maiden, saucer · 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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saucer | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 saucer | punct |
| 8 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 saucer | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saucer | cop |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 saucer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 apple | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 apple | det |
| 14 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 apple | amod |
| 15 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saucer | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 apple | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 apple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | man | the fair maiden | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | your saucer and the crystal apple | your nmod:poss; the crystal apple conj | tree rules |
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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