Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 65
The stepmother saw that she was doing no good, so she again went to the old soothsayer and asked and besought her how she should destroy her stepson.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: see, do, go, ask, beseech, destroy · To what, where: good, old soothsayer, stepmother, stepson
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), 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 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 doing | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 good | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 soothsayer | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soothsayer | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 soothsayer | amod |
| 18 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 besought | cc |
| 22 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 besought | obj |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 destroy | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 destroy | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 destroy | aux |
| 27 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 besought | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 stepson | nmod:poss |
| 29 | stepson | stepson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 destroy | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the stepmother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | past · progressive | stepmother | no good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | past | stepmother | the old soothsayer | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to soothsayer=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | stepmother not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | beseech | past | stepmother not said here | stepmother | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | destroy | should | stepmother | stepmother's stepson | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepson=Patient |
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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