Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 99
Then the mistress looked on, and as soon as she saw this she began beating the dog, beat it hard, very hard, and saying all the time, “Give the cat no beef, nor bread.”
Who acts: mistress, party · What happens: look on, see, begin, beat, say, give · To what, where: bread, this, dog, beef, cat · 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 (mistress, party), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mistress | det |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 began | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 saw | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 soon | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 16 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 began | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beating | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beat | punct |
| 20 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beating | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beat | obj |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 beat | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hard | punct |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 hard | advmod |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 began | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saying | cc |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 began | parataxis |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 time | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saying | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Give | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Give | punct |
| 34 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 saying | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cat | det |
| 36 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Give | obj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 beef | det |
| 38 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Give | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bread | punct |
| 40 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 41 bread | cc |
| 41 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 bread | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 bread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the mistress | bread | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | party | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | party | hard, soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | beat | gerund | party not said here | the dog | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | ||||
| 5 | beat | infinitive | party not said here | DOG | hard property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | give in a quote | infinitive | no beef | the cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient beef=Theme |
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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