Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 86
Vasilísa put the doll into her pocket, crossed herself, and went tremblingly into the darksome forest.
Who acts: Vasilísa · What happens: put, cross, go · To what, where: doll, pocket, VASILÍSA, darksome forest
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), 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 | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doll | det |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pocket | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl | ||
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crossed | punct |
| 9 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 crossed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 14 | tremblingly | tremblingly | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forest | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Vasilísa | the doll | VASILÍSA's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent doll=Goal | |||
| 2 | cross | past | Vasilísa not said here | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Vasilísa not said here | the darksome forest | tremblingly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location |
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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