Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 74

They sat down in order to rest, and a man came and asked them who they were.

Who acts: doves, man · What happens: sit down, rest, come, ask, be · To what, where: order, doves · 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 (doves, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 order	case
5	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	14 asked	ccomp
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 who	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 who	cop
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	doves = dove		order	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location
2	rest	to-infinitive	doves = dove not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	a man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	a man not said here	doves = dove		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	is a	past	doves = dove			tree rules

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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 74