Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 135
“Then I went to lie under the fence, and I heard a cry: ‘Pull me out and stick me in again!’”
Who acts: peasant · What happens: go, lie, hear, pull out, stick · To what, where: fence, cry, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lie | mark |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 fence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fence | det |
| 9 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cry | det |
| 15 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pull | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pull | punct |
| 18 | Pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 heard | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Pull | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 Pull | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stick | cc |
| 22 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Pull | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 stick | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 again | case |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 stick | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pull | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pull | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | the peasant = peasant | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | to-infinitive | the peasant = peasant not said here | the fence | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under fence=Location | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | past | the peasant = peasant | a cry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pull out in a quote | infinitive | the peasant = peasant | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stick in a quote | infinitive | the peasant = peasant | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in again=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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