Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 12
And when she saw that her sisters flew away she said, “Do not seek me, my dear sisters, but fly home.
Who acts: eleven, sisters · What happens: see, fly away, say, not seek, fly · To what, where: eleven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven, sisters), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 flew | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | advcl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seek | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 seek | punct |
| 14 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 seek | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 seek | advmod |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seek | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sisters | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sisters | amod |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seek | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fly | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 fly | cc |
| 24 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seek | conj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 fly | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | eleven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fly away | past | eleven's sisters | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | eleven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not seek in a quote | infinitive · do-support | eleven | my dear sisters obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly in a quote | infinitive | home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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