Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 78
When the soldier saw the old woman he cried out to her, “Here, stop, you old devil!
Who acts: soldier, Ho · What happens: see, cry out, stop · To what, where: old woman, woman · 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 (soldier, Ho), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stop | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Here | punct |
| 15 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stop | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stop | punct |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 stop | obj |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 devil | amod |
| 21 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | xcomp |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the soldier | the old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Ho | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | woman | here | old devil xcomp | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality you=Eventuality |
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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