Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 145
They asked what her trouble was, and she needs must tell the two.
Who acts: tears, trouble, many · What happens: ask, be, need, tell, trouble · To what, where: two · 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 (tears, trouble, many), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 needs | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 needs | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 needs | nsubj |
| 10 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 needs | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 two | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 tell | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | tears = tear | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | many's trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | need | present | many | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | must | many not said here | the two | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent two=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | trouble | many | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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