Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 34

At last she found an old wise woman, who gave her a poison and bade her put it under the threshold just when her stepson was coming in.

Who acts: stepmother, old wise woman, poison, stepson · What happens: find, give, put, come in · To what, where: old wise woman, last, stepmother, bade, threshold

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, old wise woman, poison, stepson), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 poison	det
14	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bade	cc
16	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 poison	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 threshold	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 threshold	det
22	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
23	just	just	ADV	_	28 coming	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 coming	advmod
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stepson	nmod:poss
26	stepson	stepson	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coming	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 coming	aux
28	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 put	advcl
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 coming	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	stepmother	a old wise woman		last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at last=Asset
2	give	past	a old wise woman		stepmother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	put	past	a poison and bade	bade		the threshold	stepmother nsubj	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under threshold=Destination
4	come in	past · progressive	stepmother's stepson					vn escape-51.1-1 «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 34