Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 60
As soon as ever she saw the embroidery-frame she began to scold Tsar Bárkhat: “Whatever nonsense have you hanging up there, Tsar Bárkhat?
Who acts: VASILÍSA, you · What happens: see, begin, scold, hang up · To what, where: embroidery frame, Tsar · 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 (VASILÍSA, you), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 frame | det |
| 8 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frame | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 embroidery | punct |
| 10 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frame | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 scold | mark |
| 14 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 scold | obj |
| 16 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Tsar | flat |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 nonsense | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 nonsense | punct |
| 19 | Whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 20 nonsense | det |
| 20 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hanging | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 hanging | nsubj |
| 23 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 nonsense | nmod |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 hanging | compound:prt |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 hanging | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tsar | punct |
| 27 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 nonsense | appos |
| 28 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Tsar | flat |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | the embroidery frame | ever | whatever nonsense obl; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frame=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | begin | past | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | the embroidery frame not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scold | to-infinitive | VASILÍSA = vasilísa not said here | Tsar | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang up in a quote | present | you | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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