Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 83
Then the Dollet ate, and her eyes glittered like two lamps, and she said: “Fear nothing, Vasilísushka.
Who acts: Dollet, eyes · What happens: eat, glitter, say · To what, where: nothing · 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 (Dollet, eyes), 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 ate | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dollet | det |
| 3 | Dollet | dollet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glittered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 glittered | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glittered | nsubj |
| 9 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 lamps | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lamps | nummod |
| 12 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glittered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ate | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 nothing | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 nothing | punct |
| 19 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nothing | compound |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 said | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Vasilísushka | punct |
| 22 | Vasilísushka | Vasilísushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 nothing | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the Dollet | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | glitter | past | Dollet's eyes | like two lamps | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dollet | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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