Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 151
The daughter went and got the oven thoroughly hot, took out and bound Fílyushka, and put him on the shovel, and was just going to shove him into the oven, when he went and knocked his forehead with his feet.
Who acts: daughter, Fílyushka · What happens: go, get, take out, bound, put, shove · To what, where: oven, Fílyushka, shovel, forehead
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Fílyushka), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oven | det |
| 7 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 9 hot | advmod |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 oven | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bound | cc |
| 14 | bound | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | conj |
| 15 | Fílyushka | Fílyushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bound | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shovel | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shovel | det |
| 22 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 going | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 going | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 going | advmod |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 shove | mark |
| 29 | shove | shove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 going | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 shove | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 oven | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 oven | det |
| 33 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shove | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 went | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 knocked | cc |
| 39 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 went | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 41 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 knocked | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 feet | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 feet | nmod:poss |
| 44 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 knocked | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the daughter not said here | the oven | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oven=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take out | past | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bound | infinitive | Fílyushka | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fílyushka=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | the daughter not said here | Fílyushka | the shovel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shovel=Destination | |||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | shove | to-infinitive | Fílyushka | the oven | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into oven=Destination | ||||
| 8 | go | past | Fílyushka | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | knock | past | Fílyushka not said here | Fílyushka's forehead | with Fílyushka's feet | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient with foot=Instrument |
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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