Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 23
And for the third time the snake came in the evening and said, “Now, fair maiden, I am going to lie with you in the bedstead.”
Who acts: snake · What happens: come, say, go, lie · To what, where: bedstead · 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 maiden | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 maiden | punct |
| 16 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 fair | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Now | punct |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 maiden | amod |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 lie | mark |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | xcomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 lie | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bedstead | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bedstead | det |
| 30 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lie | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the snake | evening; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the snake not said here | fair maiden ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the snake = snake | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | to-infinitive | the snake = snake not said here | the bedstead | with you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bedstead=Location |
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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