Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 105
Vasilísa, shuddering with dread, stepped up to her, bowed low to the ground, and said: “Mother, I am here.
Who acts: Vasilísa · What happens: shudder, step up, bow, say, be · To what, where: Fum, Mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa), 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 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shuddering | punct |
| 3 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Vasilísa | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 dread | case |
| 5 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shuddering | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vasilísa | punct |
| 7 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stepped | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stepped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bowed | punct |
| 12 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stepped | conj |
| 13 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 bowed | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bowed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stepped | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Mother | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Mother | punct |
| 22 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 here | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 here | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 here | cop |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shudder | gerund | Vasilísa not said here | with dread | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | step up | past | Vasilísa | Fum | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bow | past | Vasilísa not said here | to the ground; low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Vasilísa not said here | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Vasilísa | here property | tree rules |
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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