Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 16
So next day she sent Three-eyes, and Márya Tsarévna sent her to sleep in the same way; only she forgot the third eye, and that went on looking and looking at what Márya Tsarévna did.
Who acts: Márya, that · What happens: send, sleep, forget, go, look, do · To what, where: Three eyes, eye, same way, third eye
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eyes | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Three | punct |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 11 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Márya | flat |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgot | punct |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 forgot | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forgot | nsubj |
| 24 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eye | det |
| 26 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 eye | amod |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forgot | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forgot | conj |
| 32 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 33 looking | mark |
| 33 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 went | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 looking | cc |
| 35 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 looking | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 what | case |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 looking | obl |
| 38 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 did | nsubj |
| 39 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Márya | flat |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 what | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Márya | Three eyes | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | Márya | eye | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Márya not said here | the same way | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | Márya | the third eye | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | that | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look | gerund | that not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | look | gerund | that not said here | what obl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at what=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do | past | Márya | vn act-114-1 «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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