Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 21

Then she answered, “That bird is my own sister: she does much evil of every kind and has set an ill doom on my kingdom, having turned all my people to stone.

Who acts: Tsarévna, bird · What happens: answer, be, do, set, turn · To what, where: own sister, evil, ill doom, kingdom, people, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, bird), 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	3 answered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sister	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 sister	punct
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sister	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sister	cop
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sister	amod
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 does	nsubj
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 evil	advmod
16	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 does	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 kind	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 kind	det
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 evil	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 set	cc
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 set	aux
22	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 does	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 doom	det
24	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 doom	amod
25	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 kingdom	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 kingdom	nmod:poss
28	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turned	punct
30	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 turned	aux
31	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 does	advcl
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 people	det:predet
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 people	nmod:poss
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 turned	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 stone	case
36	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Tsarévna			then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	that bird	my own sister			my nmod:poss	tree rules
3	do in a quote	present	Tsarévna	evil of every kind				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality
4	set in a quote	present · perfect	Tsarévna not said here	a ill doom	my kingdom			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent doom=Theme on kingdom=Destination
5	turn in a quote	gerund · perfect	Tsarévna not said here	my people	stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme to stone=Trajectory

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 25, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 21