Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 155
Then the old woman came back, looked over everything, and said: “Ho, my faithful servants, friends of my heart!
Who acts: old woman · What happens: come back, look, say · To what, where: Ho · 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 (old woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 everything | case |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ho | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ho | punct |
| 16 | Ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 servants | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 servants | nmod:poss |
| 19 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 servants | amod |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Ho | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 friends | punct |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Ho | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 friends | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the old woman | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the old woman not said here | over everything | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman not said here | Ho and my faithful servants and friends of my heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ho=Topic |
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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