Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 32
Then Vasilísa buried the skull in the earth, locked the house up, and went into the town.
Who acts: Vasilísa · What happens: bury, lock up, go · To what, where: skull, earth, house, town
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 buried | advmod |
| 2 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | nsubj |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skull | det |
| 5 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 locked | punct |
| 10 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 locked | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 locked | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | Vasilísa | the skull | the earth | then | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skull=Theme in earth=Destination | ||
| 2 | lock up | past | Vasilísa not said here | the house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Vasilísa not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=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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