Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 24
By the evening of the next day she reached the house, and was going to throw the skull away, when she heard a hollow voice coming out of the skull and saying: “Do not throw me away.
Who acts: Vasilísa, hollow voice · What happens: reach, go, throw away, hear, come out, say · To what, where: house, skull, hollow voice, Bába · 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 (Vasilísa, hollow voice), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 going | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 reached | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 throw | mark |
| 17 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skull | det |
| 19 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throw | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 throw | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 heard | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reached | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 voice | det |
| 26 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 voice | amod |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obj |
| 28 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 voice | acl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 skull | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 skull | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 skull | det |
| 32 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 coming | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 saying | cc |
| 34 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 coming | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 throw | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 throw | punct |
| 37 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 throw | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 throw | advmod |
| 39 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 heard | conj |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 throw | obj |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 throw | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Vasilísa | the house | day; evening | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Vasilísa not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | throw away | to-infinitive | Vasilísa not said here | the skull | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear | past | Vasilísa | a hollow voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come out | gerund | a hollow voice not said here | the skull | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient skull=Result | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | a hollow voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not throw away in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Vasilísa not said here | Bába | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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