Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 49
So the devil fumbled in his pocket, got out a glass, poured cold water into it, and put it over the head of the sick child, and told the soldier: “Come here, look into the water.”
Who acts: devil · What happens: fumble, get out, pour, put, tell, come · To what, where: pocket, glass, cold water, water, head, soldier · 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 (devil), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 fumbled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fumbled | nsubj |
| 4 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pocket | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fumbled | obl | ||
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fumbled | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 got | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 glass | det |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 poured | punct |
| 14 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fumbled | parataxis |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poured | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 poured | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 poured | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 head | det |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 child | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 child | det |
| 28 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 child | amod |
| 29 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 told | cc |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fumbled | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 soldier | det |
| 34 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 told | iobj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 37 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 told | ccomp |
| 38 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 Come | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 look | punct |
| 40 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 Come | conj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 water | det |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 look | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fumble | past | the devil | boy's pocket | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | the devil not said here | a glass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pour | past | cold water | water | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | glass | the head of the sick child | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the devil not said here | the soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | look in a quote | infinitive | into the water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme |
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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