Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 115

When the boy was on the road, he wept bitterly and spoke to himself: “Am I then the feeblest man in the world, and no maiden will really have me?

Who acts: boy, maiden · What happens: be, weep, speak, have · To what, where: road, boy, feeblest man, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, maiden), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 was	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wept	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wept	nsubj
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	10 wept	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spoke	cc
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wept	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 spoke	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
18	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 man	cop
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 man	nsubj
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 man	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	feeblest	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wept	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 maiden	det
30	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 have	advmod
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wept	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the boy			the road			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Location
2	weep	past	boy					bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	boy not said here		boy				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	boy	the feeblest man		the world	then		tree rules
5	have in a quote	future	no maiden	boy					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 115

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 115