Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 62
And afterwards every one began saying had any one a tale of wonder to tell; let him start.
Who acts: one, host, wonder · What happens: begin, say, have, tell, let, start · To what, where: one, host · 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 (one, host, wonder), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 began | cc |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 began | xcomp |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | ccomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tale | det |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wonder | case |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tale | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wonder | acl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | every one | afterwards property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | every one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | any one | a tale of wonder obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | host | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | start | infinitive | host not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | tell | wonder | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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