Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 22
So she turned Vasilísa out of the room and kicked her to the door, took a skull with the burning eyes from the fence, put it on a staff, gave it her and said, “Now you have fire for your stepmother’s daughters, for that was why they sent you here.”
Who acts: Bába, you, eyes · What happens: turn, kick, take, put, give, say · To what, where: Vasilísa, room, skull, fence, staff, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bába, you, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kicked | cc |
| 10 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kicked | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kicked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 skull | det |
| 18 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 21 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | compound |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 fence | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fence | det |
| 25 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 took | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 staff | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 staff | det |
| 31 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gave | punct |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | obj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | iobj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 gave | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 40 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 have | advmod |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 said | ccomp |
| 43 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 have | obj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 daughters | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 46 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 stepmother | case |
| 48 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 have | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 why | punct |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 that | case |
| 51 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 why | obl |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 why | cop |
| 53 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 have | parataxis |
| 54 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 sent | nsubj |
| 55 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 why | ccomp |
| 56 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 sent | iobj |
| 57 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 sent | advmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 59 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Bába | Vasilísa | the room | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent vasilísa=Theme out room=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | kick | past | Bába not said here | Vasilísa | to the door result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to door=Result | |||
| 3 | take | past | Bába not said here | a skull | the fence | with the burning eyes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent skull=Theme from fence=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Bába not said here | skull | a staff | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on staff=Destination | |||
| 5 | give | past | skull | Vasilísa | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | you | fire | now | for your stepmother's daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | ||
| 8 | is in a quote | past | for that; why property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | send in a quote | past | eyes = eye | you | here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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