Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 59
Vasilísa was told to go walking, plucking flowers; and all her flowerbeds were done in time, all the coal was brought in, and the water-jugs carried in, and the hearthstone was hot.
Who acts: Vasilísa, hearthstone · What happens: tell, go, walk, pluck, do, bring in · To what, where: Vasilísa, flowers, flowerbeds, coal, water jugs · 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 (Vasilísa, hearthstone), 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 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 go | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plucking | punct |
| 8 | plucking | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 walking | conj |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plucking | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 done | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 flowerbeds | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 flowerbeds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | flowerbeds | flowerbed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 coal | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 coal | det |
| 22 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | aux:pass |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 done | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 brought | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 carried | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 carried | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 jugs | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 jugs | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 water | punct |
| 31 | jugs | jug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADV | _ | 32 carried | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hot | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 hot | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hearthstone | det |
| 37 | hearthstone | hearthstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hot | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 hot | cop |
| 39 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Vasilísa | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vasilísa not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | Vasilísa not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pluck | gerund | Vasilísa not said here | flowers | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do | past · passive | VASILÍSA's flowerbeds | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | bring in | past · passive | all coal | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 7 | carry | participle · passive | the water jugs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the hearthstone | hot property | tree rules |
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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