Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 17
Then the little devil could not stand it and took to his heels out of the stove.
Who acts: little devil · What happens: not stand, take · To what, where: acquaintance, stove
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little devil), 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 stand | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 devil | amod |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stand | advmod |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 heels | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heels | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 stove | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stove | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stove | det |
| 17 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | could | the little devil | acquaintance | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | the little devil not said here | the stove | to devil's heels | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to heel=Destination out stove=Initial_Location |
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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