Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 46
“Darling, tell me, where have the Russian bones crept away?”
Who acts: Darling, Russian bones · What happens: tell, have, creep away · To what, where: Darling · 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 (Darling, Russian bones), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Darling | punct |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bones | det |
| 10 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bones | amod |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crept | nsubj |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | ccomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 crept | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Darling | Darling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | creep away in a quote | past | the Russian bones | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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