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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 4

He, without noticing, touched the youngest princess’s dress: she was frightened and said to her sisters, “O my sisters, somebody has stepped on my dress.

Who acts: nobleman · What happens: notice, touch, frighten, say, step · To what, where: dress, princess, sisters, somebody · 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 (nobleman), 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

nsubjpunctmarkpunctparataxisdetamodnmod:posscaseobjpunctnsubj:passaux:passparataxisccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctdiscoursenmod:possconjpunctnsubj:passauxconjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootHePRON,PUNCTwithoutSCONJnoticingVERB,PUNCTtouchedVERBtheDETyoungestADJprincessNOUN’sPARTdressNOUN:PUNCTshePRONwasAUXfrightenedVERBandCCONJsaidVERBtoADPherPRONsistersNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTOINTJmyPRONsistersNOUN,PUNCTsomebodyPRONhasAUXsteppedVERBonADPmyPRONdressNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 noticingnsubj
2,,PUNCT_4 noticingpunct
3withoutwithoutSCONJ_4 noticingmark
4noticingnoticeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
5,,PUNCT_6 touchedpunct
6touchedtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 noticingparataxis
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 princessdet
8youngestyoungADJDegree=Sup9 princessamod
9princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing11 dressnmod:poss
10’s'sPART_9 princesscase
11dressdressNOUNNumber=Sing6 touchedobj
12::PUNCT_15 frightenedpunct
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 frightenednsubj:pass
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 frightenedaux:pass
15frightenedfrightenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 touchedparataxis
16andandCCONJ_17 saidcc
17saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 frightenedconj
18totoADP_20 sisterscase
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 sistersnmod:poss
20sisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur17 saidobl
21,,PUNCT_25 sisterspunct
22“"PUNCT_25 sisterspunct
23OoINTJ_25 sistersdiscourse
24mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 sistersnmod:poss
25sisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur20 sistersconj
26,,PUNCT_29 steppedpunct
27somebodysomebodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind29 steppednsubj:pass
28hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 steppedaux
29steppedstepVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 frightenedconj
30ononADP_32 dresscase
31mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 dressnmod:poss
32dressdressNOUNNumber=Sing29 steppedobl
33..PUNCT_4 noticingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1noticegerundnoblemanvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2touchpastthe youngest princess's dressvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dress=Co-Theme
3frightenpast · passiveprincessvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4say speech: assertpastprincess's sisters and my sistersvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient
5step in a quotepresent · perfect · passivesomebodymy dressvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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