Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 31

“Now, my fair daughter, my little child, tell me at once, why does the room smell so of Russian bones?”

Who acts: fair daughter · What happens: tell · To what, where: maiden · 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 (fair daughter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tell	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	amod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 child	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 child	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 tell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 tell	parataxis
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 why	advcl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 smell	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smell	compound
21	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 does	obj
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	25 bones	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 so	fixed
24	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bones	amod
25	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 does	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	my fair daughter and my little child		maiden		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 31