Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 26
And she looked at her stepmother’s house and saw that there was no light in any window, and decided to enter with the skull.
Who acts: Vasilísa, light · What happens: look, see, be, decide, enter · 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, light), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 stepmother | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 light | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 light | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 decided | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 decided | cc |
| 21 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 enter | mark |
| 23 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 decided | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 skull | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 skull | det |
| 26 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enter | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Vasilísa | at Vasilísa's stepmother's house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Vasilísa not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no light in any window | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | decide | past | Vasilísa not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vasilísa not said here | with the skull | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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