Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 131
Vasilísa, left all by herself, looked over the house of the Bába Yagá, wondered at all the wealth gathered in, and began to consider what she should start with.
Who acts: Vasilísa, wealth · What happens: leave, look, wonder, gather, begin, consider
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, wealth), 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 | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vasilísa | punct |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 herself | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 left | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Yagá | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Yagá | det |
| 14 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yagá | compound |
| 15 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wondered | punct |
| 17 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 18 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 22 gathered | mark |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 wealth | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wealth | det |
| 21 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gathered | nsubj |
| 22 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wondered | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 gathered | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 consider | mark |
| 28 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 began | xcomp |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 start | obj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 start | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 start | aux |
| 32 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 consider | ccomp |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 start | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Vasilísa | by VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by herself=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Vasilísa not said here | over the house of the Bába Yagá | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Vasilísa not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | gather | past | all wealth | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | Vasilísa not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | consider | to-infinitive | Vasilísa not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | start | should | wealth | what obj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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