Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 15
But the youngest daughter looked at Donotknow’s hand and observed her kerchief on it, blushed and never said a word.
Who acts: youngest daughter · What happens: look, observe, blush, not say · To what, where: kerchief, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest daughter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 7 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Donotknow | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 observed | cc |
| 11 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kerchief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 observed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 observed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blushed | punct |
| 17 | blushed | blush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 observed | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 said | advmod |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blushed | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the youngest daughter | at Donotknow's hand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | the youngest daughter not said here | monster's kerchief | kerchief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kerchief=Topic | |||
| 3 | blush | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | past | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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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