Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 81
And Vasilísa went to her room, put meat and drink before her doll, and said: “Dolly dear, eat it and listen to my complaint.
Who acts: Vasilísa, my · What happens: go, put, say, eat, listen, complain · To what, where: room, meat, doll · 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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meat | conj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 doll | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 doll | nmod:poss |
| 14 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 dear | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 dear | punct |
| 20 | Dolly | dolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dear | compound |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eat | punct |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 dear | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 listen | cc |
| 26 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 eat | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 complaint | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 complaint | nmod:poss |
| 29 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 listen | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Vasilísa | VASILÍSA's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Vasilísa not said here | meat and drink | VASILÍSA's doll | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme before doll=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Vasilísa not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | room | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | listen in a quote | infinitive | to my complaint | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to complaint=Theme | |||||
| 6 | complain in a quote | my | nom complaint «state 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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