Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 58
Then the daughter of the witch cried out: “The destroyer and the wicked woman have come.”
Who acts: daughter, destroyer · What happens: cry out, come · 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 (daughter, destroyer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 cried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 witch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | nmod |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cried | compound:prt |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 destroyer | det |
| 12 | destroyer | destroyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 woman | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 destroyer | conj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the daughter of the witch | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the destroyer and the wicked woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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