Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 166
The pope saw her, and sent a servant out and asked what they desired.
Who acts: pope, meat · What happens: see, send out, ask, desire · To what, where: bride, servant · 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 (pope, meat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pope | det |
| 2 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 servant | det |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sent | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 desired | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 desired | nsubj |
| 15 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the pope | bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send out | past | the pope not said here | a servant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the pope not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | desire | past | meat | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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