Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 64
The old woman met them and told them, “Guests have come in to spend the night.”
Who acts: old woman, Guests · What happens: meet, tell, come in, spend · To what, where: robbers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Guests), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 11 | Guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spend | mark |
| 16 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spend | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the old woman | robbers = robber | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the old woman not said here | robbers = robber | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in in a quote | present · perfect | Guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spend in a quote | to-infinitive | Guests not said here | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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