Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 116
She broke off a sprig, pulled up a water-lily, and put some of the Water of Life into the cup of the flower, and turned back homewards.
Who acts: girl, sprig · What happens: break off, pull up, put, turn back · To what, where: sprig, water lily, cup, homewards
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 (girl, sprig), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 broke | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sprig | det |
| 5 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sprig | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 pulled | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lily | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lily | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 12 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 broke | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 Water | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Water | det |
| 19 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Life | case |
| 21 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Water | nmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 cup | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cup | det |
| 24 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 flower | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flower | det |
| 27 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cup | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 turned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 turned | cc |
| 30 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 31 | back | back | ADP | _ | 30 turned | compound:prt |
| 32 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 turned | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | girl | a sprig | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sprig=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pull up | participle | a sprig not said here | a water lily | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | girl not said here | the cup of the flower | of the Water of Life | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | turn back | past | girl not said here | homewards | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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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