Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 23
And the witch read out the prayer and then said: “Let me go!”
Who acts: witch · What happens: read out, say, let, go · To what, where: prayer, witch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 read | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | nsubj |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 read | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prayer | det |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | advmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 13 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Let | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Let | xcomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read out | past | the witch | the prayer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the witch not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | the witch = witch | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | the witch = witch not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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