Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 67
“Well, then, come; I will steal your mistress’s child out of the cradle, and do you chase me away and take the child back.
Who acts: you, bear · What happens: come, steal, chase away, take back · To what, where: child, cradle, bear
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 (you, bear), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 come | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 steal | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 steal | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 steal | aux |
| 10 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | parataxis |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 child | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 mistress | case |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 steal | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 cradle | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cradle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cradle | det |
| 18 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 steal | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chase | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 chase | cc |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 chase | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 chase | nsubj |
| 23 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 steal | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 chase | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 chase | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 take | cc |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 chase | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 child | det |
| 29 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 take | obj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 take | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | steal in a quote | future | the bear = bear | your mistress's child | the cradle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme out cradle=Source | |||
| 3 | chase away in a quote | present · do-support | you | the bear = bear | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | take back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination |
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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