Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 58
Then the doll gave her good advice, consoled her, and did all her morning’s work for her.
Who acts: doll, morning · What happens: give, console, do, work · To what, where: good advice, VASILÍSA, work
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 (doll, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doll | det |
| 3 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 advice | amod |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 consoled | punct |
| 9 | consoled | console | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 consoled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 did | cc |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 work | det:predet |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 morning | nmod:poss |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the doll | good advice | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient advice=Theme | ||
| 2 | console | past | the doll not said here | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the doll not said here | VASILÍSA's morning's work | for VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | work | VASILÍSA's morning | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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