Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 85
And he seized the lady by the legs with the pinchers, threw her into the forge, and burned her all up.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: seize, throw, burn · To what, where: lady, money, forge
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 (spirit), 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 seized | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 legs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legs | det |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pinchers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pinchers | det |
| 11 | pinchers | pincher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 forge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forge | det |
| 17 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burned | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 burned | cc |
| 20 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 burned | obj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 up | advmod |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 burned | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | spirit | the lady | by the legs; with the pinchers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | past | spirit not said here | money | into the forge result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer she=Theme into forge=Result | |||
| 3 | burn | past | spirit not said here | money | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=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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