Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 151
Now, remember, when you go to sleep the princesses will pour a sleeping-draught out for you: you turn to the wall and pour it into the bed and do not drink it.”
Who acts: you, princesses · What happens: remember, go, sleep, pour, draught out, turn · To what, where: wall, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princesses), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remember | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 go | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princesses | det |
| 11 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pour | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pour | aux |
| 13 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sleep | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 draught | det |
| 15 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 draught | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleeping | punct |
| 17 | draught | draught | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 pour | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 draught | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 draught | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 turn | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 turn | nsubj |
| 23 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pour | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turn | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pour | cc |
| 28 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 turn | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pour | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 bed | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bed | det |
| 32 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pour | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 drink | cc |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 drink | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 drink | advmod |
| 36 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 turn | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 drink | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | now | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pour | future | the princesses | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | draught out | participle | the princesses not said here | for you; sleeping compound | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | turn | present | you | the wall | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | pour | present | you not said here | wall | the bed | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into bed=Destination | |||
| 8 | not drink | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | wall | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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