Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 36

On her death-bed the mother called the maiden to her, took a doll out of her counterpane, said: “Vasilísushka, hear my last words.

Who acts: mother, Vasilísushka, my · What happens: call, take, say, hear, word · To what, where: maiden, mother, doll, death bed, last words · 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 (mother, Vasilísushka, my), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 bed	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bed	nmod:poss
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bed	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 death	punct
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bed	appos
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mother	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 maiden	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bed	punct
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 doll	det
16	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 counterpane	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 counterpane	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 counterpane	nmod:poss
20	counterpane	counterpane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
25	Vasilísushka	Vasilísushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 hear	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Vasilísushka	punct
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 words	nmod:poss
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 words	amod
30	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hear	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the mother not said here	the maiden	mother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic to she=Recipient
2	take	past		a doll		VASILÍSA's death bed	out mother's counterpane	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent doll=Theme out counterpane=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hear in a quote	infinitive	Vasilísushka	my last words				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	word in a quote		my					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 36