Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 121
Vasilísa put the rest of the dinner in front of the doll and said: “Dollet, eat it up and listen to my woe.
Who acts: Vasilísa · What happens: put, say, eat up, listen · To what, where: rest, front, Dollet · 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 | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dinner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dinner | det |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 doll | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doll | det |
| 12 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 17 | Dollet | dollet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dollet | punct |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 eat | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 listen | cc |
| 23 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eat | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 woe | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 woe | nmod:poss |
| 26 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 listen | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Vasilísa | the rest of the dinner | front of the doll | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rest=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Vasilísa not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat up in a quote | infinitive | Dollet | rest obj | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | infinitive | to my woe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to woe=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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