Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 127
So she went to the old Queen and said: “Dear Gossip, I am giving you a ring.
Who acts: witch · What happens: go, say, give · To what, where: ring, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Queen | amod |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Gossip | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Gossip | punct |
| 12 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Gossip | amod |
| 13 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 giving | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 giving | aux |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 giving | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | witch | to the old Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | witch not said here | Dear Gossip ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · progressive | witch | a ring | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ring=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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