Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

Then there came the pie, and as soon as even Vasilísa Vasílyevna’s spoon touched it, it tingled on the pearls; and she flung them and the pie under the table, and began to scold the Tsar.

Who acts: pie, Tsar · What happens: come, touch, tingle, fling, begin, scold · To what, where: pie, pearls, Tsar

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 (pie, Tsar), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pie	det
5	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 touched	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 touched	cc
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 touched	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	15 spoon	case
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 Vasilísa	advmod
12	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spoon	compound
13	Vasílyevna	Vasílyevna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Vasilísa	flat
14	’s	's	PART	_	12 Vasilísa	case
15	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touched	obl
16	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touched	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tingled	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tingled	nsubj
20	tingled	tingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 touched	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 pearls	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pearls	det
23	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tingled	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 flung	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flung	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flung	nsubj
27	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flung	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pie	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pie	det
31	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flung	conj
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 table	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 table	det
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pie	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 began	cc
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 scold	mark
39	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Tsar	det
41	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 scold	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the pie		there	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	past		pie			as Vasilísa spoon; soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	tingle	past	pie		the pearls			vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	fling	past	Tsar	pearls = pearl			the pie under the table conj	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	begin	past	the pie not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	scold	to-infinitive	the pie not said here	the Tsar				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 71