Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 21
In the evening the snake flew to her and ordered, “Now, fair maiden, put my bed next to your bedstead.”
Who acts: snake · What happens: fly, order, put · To what, where: wind, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (snake), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 maiden | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 maiden | punct |
| 13 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 maiden | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 maiden | punct |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 maiden | parataxis |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | next | next | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bedstead | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bedstead | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 next | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the snake | wind | evening | fair maiden parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | order | past | the snake not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | my bed | next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bed=Goal |
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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