Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 57
“Thrust your pike into the flame: I will jump out on to it.”
Who acts: you, fair maiden standing · What happens: thrust, jump out · To what, where: pike, flame
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 (you, fair maiden standing), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thrust | punct |
| 2 | Thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pike | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thrust | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 flame | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flame | det |
| 7 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thrust | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 jump | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 jump | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 jump | aux |
| 11 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Thrust | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 jump | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 jump | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jump | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thrust | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your pike | the flame | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme | |||
| 2 | jump out in a quote | future | a fair maiden standing = standing | flame | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=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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