Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 52
Vasilísa went to her window and cried out in a threatening voice, “Hail, ye creeping ants, as many as there be of you in the white world, all creep here and pick out all the corn of my father’s hayricks quite cleanly.”
Who acts: Vasilísa, ye · What happens: go, cry out, creep, be, pick out · To what, where: threatening voice, ants, white world, corn · 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 (Vasilísa, ye), 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 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 window | nmod:poss |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cried | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 voice | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | threatening | threatening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | compound |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hail | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hail | punct |
| 15 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 creeping | punct |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 creeping | nsubj |
| 18 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 19 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 creeping | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 many | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 many | advmod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 creeping | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 there | case |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 many | obl |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 you | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 many | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 world | amod |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creeping | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 creep | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 creep | advmod |
| 34 | creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 creep | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 pick | cc |
| 37 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 creep | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 pick | compound:prt |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 corn | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 corn | det |
| 41 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pick | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 hayricks | case |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 father | nmod:poss |
| 44 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hayricks | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 father | case |
| 46 | hayricks | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 corn | nmod |
| 47 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 48 cleanly | advmod |
| 48 | cleanly | cleanly | ADV | _ | 37 pick | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Vasilísa | to Vasilísa's window | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Vasilísa not said here | a threatening voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | ||||
| 3 | creep in a quote | gerund | ye | ants | the white world | many obl | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ant=Theme | ||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | of you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | creep in a quote | present | here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pick out in a quote | infinitive | all corn of my father's hayricks | cleanly property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
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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