Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 72
“Who,” she asked, “put these into the pie?
What happens: ask, put · To what, where: these, pie · 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: 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 | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pie | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pie | det |
| 13 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Who nsubj; Tsar nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | these | the pie | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent this=Goal |
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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