Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 106
So he gave her another rolling-pin, and told her to follow it: she would hear cries of “Catch her: scotch her,” but she must not look round, for fear of being turned into stone.
Who acts: youngest, many, cries · What happens: give, tell, follow, hear, catch, not look round · To what, where: rolling pin, many, pin, cries, fear, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, many, cries), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | 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 gave | iobj |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 pin | det |
| 6 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pin | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 rolling | punct |
| 8 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 hear | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hear | aux |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 20 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hear | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 Catch | mark |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Catch | punct |
| 23 | Catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cries | acl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Catch | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 scotch | punct |
| 26 | scotch | scotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 her | obl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 look | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 look | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 look | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 look | advmod |
| 34 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 35 | round | round | ADV | _ | 34 look | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fear | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 fear | case |
| 38 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 look | parataxis |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 turned | mark |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 turned | aux:pass |
| 41 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 fear | acl |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 stone | case |
| 43 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turned | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | youngest = young | another rolling pin | many | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | youngest = young not said here | many | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | youngest = young not said here | pin | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | would | many | cries | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | catch in a quote | infinitive | cries not said here | many | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not look round | must | many | fear parataxis; round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | turn | gerund · passive | fear not said here | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into stone=Trajectory |
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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