Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 38
And in the spring they bleached the linen, and Vasilísa said to the old mistress: “Go and sell the cloth, and keep the money for yourself.”
Who acts: eyes, Vasilísa · What happens: bleach, say, go, sell, keep · To what, where: linen, old mistress, cloth, money · 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 (eyes, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bleached | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spring | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bleached | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bleached | nsubj |
| 6 | bleached | bleach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 linen | det |
| 8 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bleached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 11 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bleached | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mistress | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mistress | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mistress | amod |
| 16 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 19 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sell | cc |
| 21 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 Go | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cloth | det |
| 23 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sell | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 keep | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 keep | cc |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 Go | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 money | det |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 keep | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 yourself | case |
| 30 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 keep | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleach | past | eyes = eye | the linen | spring | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent linen=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Vasilísa | the old mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mistress=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sell in a quote | infinitive | the cloth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | |||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | infinitive | the money | for the old mistress = mistress | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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