Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 42
So the old woman got a second poison, and bade her put it into the trough.
Who acts: old woman, bade · What happens: get, put · To what, where: second poison, soothsayer, trough
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 (old woman, bade), 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 | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 poison | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 poison | amod |
| 8 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | nsubj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 trough | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trough | det |
| 17 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the old woman | a second poison | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poison=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | put | past | bade woman | soothsayer | the trough | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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