Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 40
They then locked themselves up in the huts, tied the princess down on the big table, cut her up with the curved sabre into little bits, put them all into the cauldron, washed them, and rinsed them out.
Who acts: doctors · What happens: lock up, tie down, cut up, curve, put, wash · To what, where: doctors, huts, princess, little bits, cauldron
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors), 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 | 3 locked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 locked | advmod |
| 3 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 locked | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 locked | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 huts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 huts | det |
| 8 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 locked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tied | punct |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 locked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tied | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 tied | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 table | amod |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tied | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cut | punct |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 locked | parataxis |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cut | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 cut | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 sabre | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sabre | det |
| 24 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 sabre | amod |
| 25 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cut | obl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 bits | case |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bits | amod |
| 28 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cut | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 cut | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 cauldron | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cauldron | det |
| 35 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 washed | punct |
| 37 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 locked | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 washed | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rinsed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rinsed | cc |
| 41 | rinsed | rinse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 locked | conj |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 rinsed | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 rinsed | compound:prt |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | past | doctors = doctor | doctors = doctor | the huts | then | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||
| 2 | tie down | past | doctors = doctor not said here | the princess | on the big table | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent princess=Patient on table=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | cut up | infinitive | princess | into little bits result; with the curved sabre | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with sabre=Instrument into bit=Result | ||||
| 4 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | doctors = doctor | the cauldron | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 6 | wash | past | doctors = doctor not said here | doctors = doctor | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 7 | rinse out | past | doctors = doctor not said here | doctors = doctor | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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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