Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 109
“Whatever is she living on?” the witch thought, and she gave her the same piece of bread next day, and told her eldest daughter to watch what Márya Tsarévna did.
Who acts: Márya, witch · What happens: live on, think, give, tell, watch, do · To what, where: Whatever, same piece, Witch, eldest daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya, witch), 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 | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 2 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 living | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 living | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 living | nsubj |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 living | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 piece | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 piece | amod |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bread | case |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 daughter | amod |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 told | iobj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 watch | mark |
| 31 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | advcl |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 did | obj |
| 33 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 did | nsubj |
| 34 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Márya | flat |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 watch | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live on in a quote | present · progressive | Márya | Whatever | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme whatever=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the witch | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | Márya | the same piece of bread | Witch | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme | ||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the witch not said here | Márya's eldest daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | watch | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | past | Márya | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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