Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 114
So Vasilísa lit a splinter from the skulls on the hedge and fetched Bába Yagá food out of the oven, and there was food enough there for ten men.
Who acts: Vasilísa · What happens: light, fetch, be · To what, where: splinter, skulls, Yagá food, oven
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lit | advmod |
| 2 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lit | nsubj |
| 3 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 there | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 splinter | det |
| 5 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lit | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 skulls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skulls | det |
| 8 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lit | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hedge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hedge | det |
| 11 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lit | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fetched | cc |
| 13 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lit | conj |
| 14 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yagá | compound |
| 15 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 food | compound |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetched | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 oven | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 oven | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oven | det |
| 20 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 was | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 was | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 there | cop |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 was | nsubj |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 27 there | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 29 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 men | nummod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 there | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | Vasilísa | a splinter | the skulls | on the hedge | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Product from skull=Material | ||
| 2 | fetch | past | Vasilísa not said here | Yagá food | the oven | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | for ten men; enough, there 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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