Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 126
The old woman was not astonished when so much came—she simply took it as it came and started making a pancake.
Who acts: old woman, woman, pot · What happens: not be, come, take, start, make · To what, where: pot, pancake
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, pot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 astonished | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astonished | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 astonished | advmod |
| 6 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astonished | advcl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 13 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astonished | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 started | cc |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 started | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pancake | det |
| 23 | pancake | pancake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the old woman | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the old woman not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | woman | pot | simply property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | past | pot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | start | past | pot not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | make | gerund | pot not said here | a pancake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pancake=Product |
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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