Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 59

The bear tore her to pieces and said, “Well, Dog, eat as much as you will, and when everything is in order, come and see me.”

Who acts: bear, Dog, everything · What happens: tore, say, eat, be, come, see · To what, where: strength, much, order, bear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, Dog, everything), 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 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tore	nsubj
3	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tore	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 pieces	case
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tore	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tore	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Dog	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Dog	punct
11	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 Dog	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Well	punct
13	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
15	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Dog	acl:relcl
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eat	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 will	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 will	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 much	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 order	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 order	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 order	advmod
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 order	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 order	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 order	case
27	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tore	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 order	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 see	cc
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 order	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tore	past	the bear	strength		to pieces	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the bear not said here			Dog ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	eat in a quote	present	Dog not said here	much			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	everything		order		tree rules
5	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see in a quote	infinitive		the bear = bear			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/3/59/

🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 59