Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

“Oh! oh! oh!” her sister whimpered, “I have been asleep all day long and have not seen anything, and mother will be so angry!”

Who acts: sister, mother · What happens: whimper, be, not see · To what, where: anything · 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 (sister, mother), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 whimpered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 whimpered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whimpered	nsubj
11	whimpered	whimper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asleep	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 asleep	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 asleep	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 asleep	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 asleep	cop
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 whimpered	parataxis
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 long	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 asleep	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 seen	advmod
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 asleep	conj
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 seen	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 angry	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 angry	cc
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 angry	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 angry	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 angry	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 angry	advmod
32	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 whimpered	parataxis
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 angry	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 whimpered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whimper	past	sister's sister			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present · perfect	sister		asleep, long property	tree rules
3	not see in a quote	present · perfect	sister not said here	anything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	future	mother		angry property	tree rules

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 6