Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 8
So the peasant let the devil leap out, shake himself and vanish away.
Who acts: peasant, devil · What happens: let, leap out, shake, vanish away · To what, where: devil
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 (peasant, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 devil | det |
| 6 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 7 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 leap | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shake | punct |
| 10 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leap | parataxis |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 shake | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 vanish | cc |
| 13 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shake | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 vanish | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the peasant | the devil | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leap out | infinitive | the devil not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake | infinitive | devil | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||||
| 4 | vanish away | present | away property | 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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