Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 56
My evil stepmother is torturing me out of the white world.
Who acts: evil stepmother · What happens: torture · To what, where: me, white world
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 (evil stepmother), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stepmother | amod |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torturing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 torturing | aux |
| 5 | torturing | torture | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 torturing | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 world | amod |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torturing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 torturing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torture | present · progressive | My evil stepmother | me | the white world | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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