Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 37
Vasilísa went to bed, and the doll in that night made a splendid spinning stool; and by the end of the winter all the linen had been woven, and it was so fine that it could be drawn like a thread through the eye of a needle.
Who acts: Vasilísa, doll, end · What happens: go, make, weave, be, draw · To what, where: bed, splendid spinning stool, linen, eye
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, doll, end), 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 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 bed | case |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doll | det |
| 8 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doll | nmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stool | det |
| 14 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stool | amod |
| 15 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stool | compound |
| 16 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 woven | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 woven | cc |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 woven | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 winter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 winter | det |
| 24 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nmod |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 linen | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 linen | det |
| 27 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 woven | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 woven | aux:pass |
| 30 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fine | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fine | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fine | expl |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fine | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 fine | advmod |
| 36 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 woven | conj |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 drawn | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 drawn | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 drawn | aux:pass |
| 41 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 fine | advcl |
| 42 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 thread | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 thread | det |
| 44 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 drawn | obl |
| 45 | through | through | ADP | _ | 47 eye | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 eye | det |
| 47 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 drawn | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 needle | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 needle | det |
| 50 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 eye | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Vasilísa | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the doll in that night | a splendid spinning stool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stool=Product | ||||
| 3 | weave | past · perfect · passive | the end of the winter | all linen | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the end of the winter not said here | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | draw | could · passive | linen | the eye of a needle | like a thread | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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