Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 123
Soon she learned that all the smith had done had been to burn her husband to bits and not to make him young, and she was very angry indeed, sent her body-servants, and ordered them to take the smith to the gallows.
Who acts: lady, smith · What happens: learn, do, burn, be, not make, send · To what, where: husband, body servants, SMITH, gallows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, smith), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 learned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 done | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 smith | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 smith | det |
| 7 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 learned | ccomp |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bits | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 bits | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 burn | mark |
| 13 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bits | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burn | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bits | case |
| 17 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learned | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 make | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learned | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 angry | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 angry | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 angry | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 angry | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 angry | advmod |
| 29 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 learned | parataxis |
| 30 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 29 angry | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sent | punct |
| 32 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | conj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 servants | nmod:poss |
| 34 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 servants | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 body | punct |
| 36 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sent | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ordered | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ordered | cc |
| 39 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | parataxis |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ordered | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 take | mark |
| 42 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 ordered | xcomp |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 smith | det |
| 44 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 take | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 gallows | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 gallows | det |
| 47 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 take | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | lady | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | all smith | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | burn | to-infinitive | lady's husband | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | to bits | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not make | to-infinitive | lady not said here | husband | young property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 6 | is | past | lady | angry, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | send | past | lady not said here | lady's body servants | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 8 | order | past | SMITH | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the smith | the gallows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smith=Theme to gallows=Destination |
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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