Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 150
Vasilísa at once fetched her doll, who ate, and said as she had the day before: “Pray and lie down to sleep, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
Who acts: Vasilísa, doll, VASILÍSA, morning · What happens: fetch, eat, say, have, pray, lie down · To what, where: doll · 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, doll, VASILÍSA, morning), 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 | 4 fetched | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 fetched | obl |
| 4 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 doll | nmod:poss |
| 6 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ate | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ate | nsubj |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 doll | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fetched | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pray | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pray | punct |
| 21 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lie | cc |
| 23 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 Pray | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 lie | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sleep | mark |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lie | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wiser | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 wiser | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 morning | det |
| 30 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wiser | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 wiser | cop |
| 32 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 Pray | conj |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 evening | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 evening | det |
| 35 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wiser | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | Vasilísa | VASILÍSA's doll | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent doll=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | VASILÍSA's doll | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Vasilísa not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | day | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 6 | lie down in a quote | infinitive | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | the morning | evening | wise 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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