Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 20
Three-eyes told her everything; and the witch ordered the dun cow to be slain.
Who acts: Three eyes, witch · What happens: tell, order, slay · To what, where: everything, dun cow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Three eyes, witch), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Three | punct |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 everything | nmod:poss |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cow | det |
| 13 | dun | dun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cow | compound |
| 14 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 slain | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 slain | aux:pass |
| 17 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cow | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Three eyes | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the witch | the dun cow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive · passive | the witch not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
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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