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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 129

“Brothers,” they said, “somebody must have been eavesdropping on us, for the peasant’s hand grew again, the maiden is healed, and the mill-wheel is turning!”

Who acts: Iván, somebody, hand, mill wheel · What happens: say, eavesdrop, grow, heal, turn · To what, where: maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, somebody, hand, mill wheel), 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

punctccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctnsubjauxauxauxccompcaseoblpunctmarkdetnmod:posscasensubjconjadvmodpunctdetnsubjaux:passconjpunctccdetcompoundpunctnsubjauxparataxispunctpunctroot“PUNCTBrothersNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTtheyPRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTsomebodyPRONmustAUXhaveAUXbeenAUXeavesdroppingVERBonADPusPRON,PUNCTforSCONJtheDETpeasantNOUN’sPARThandNOUNgrewVERBagainADV,PUNCTtheDETmaidenNOUNisAUXhealedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETmillNOUN-PUNCTwheelNOUNisAUXturningVERB!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Brotherspunct
2BrothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur6 saidccomp
3,,PUNCT_2 Brotherspunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Brotherspunct
5theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 saidnsubj
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7,,PUNCT_13 eavesdroppingpunct
8“"PUNCT_13 eavesdroppingpunct
9somebodysomebodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind13 eavesdroppingnsubj
10mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin13 eavesdroppingaux
11havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf13 eavesdroppingaux
12beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part13 eavesdroppingaux
13eavesdroppingeavesdropVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 saidccomp
14ononADP_15 uscase
15uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs13 eavesdroppingobl
16,,PUNCT_22 grewpunct
17forforSCONJ_22 grewmark
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 peasantdet
19peasantpeasantNOUNNumber=Sing21 handnmod:poss
20’s'sPART_19 peasantcase
21handhandNOUNNumber=Sing22 grewnsubj
22grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 saidconj
23againagainADV_22 grewadvmod
24,,PUNCT_28 healedpunct
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 maidendet
26maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing28 healednsubj
27isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 healedaux:pass
28healedhealVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 grewconj
29,,PUNCT_36 turningpunct
30andandCCONJ_36 turningcc
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 wheeldet
32millmillNOUNNumber=Sing34 wheelcompound
33--PUNCT_32 millpunct
34wheelwheelNOUNNumber=Sing36 turningnsubj
35isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 turningaux
36turningturnVERBVerbForm=Ger6 saidparataxis
37!!PUNCT_36 turningpunct
38”"PUNCT_36 turningpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: expresspastIvánBrothers ccompvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2eavesdrop in a quotemust · perfect · progressivesomebodyon usvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on we=Theme
3grow in a quotepastthe peasant's handagainvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4heal in a quotepresent · passivethe maidenvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5turn in a quotepresent · progressivethe mill wheelvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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