Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 18
So the fair maiden put the bed outside the door and herself lay on the bedstead.
Who acts: fair maiden, wind · What happens: put, lay · To what, where: bed, door, bedstead
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, wind), 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 | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bedstead | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bedstead | det |
| 16 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the fair maiden | the bed | the door | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme outside door=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay | present | wind | the bedstead | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bedstead=Destination |
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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