Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 149
And, as soon as she had said it, she turned round to the wall and was snoring.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: say, turn round, snore · To what, where: spite, wall · 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 (Bába), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 soon | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 turned | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 turned | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 snoring | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 snoring | aux |
| 19 | snoring | snore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 turned | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Bába | spite | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | turn round | past | Bába | the wall | round, soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wall=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | snore | past · progressive | Bába not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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