--- title: “What are you nodding for?” asked the soldier: “are you going to sle… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “What are you nodding for?” asked the soldier: “are you going to sleep?” Who acts: you, soldier. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/) / 48 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 48 “What are you nodding for?” asked the soldier: “are you going to sleep?” **Who acts:** you, soldier · **What happens:** nod, ask, go, sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, soldier), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:19:48 # text = “What are you nodding for?” asked the soldier: “are you going to sleep?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 nodding nod VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 9 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nod** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | | | | | What *obj* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the soldier | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/49/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/19/)