Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 91
Then he grew angry, and he turned me into a wild snake: I thank you for your long service.
Who acts: Koshchéy, I, your · What happens: grow, turn, thank, service · To what, where: me, you
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 (Koshchéy, I, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 turned | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 snake | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snake | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snake | amod |
| 13 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 thank | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 thank | nsubj |
| 16 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 thank | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 service | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 service | nmod:poss |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 service | amod |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thank | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Koshchéy | then | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | Koshchéy | me | into a wild snake result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Theme into snake=Result | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | present | I | you | for your long service | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for service=Attribute | |||
| 4 | service | your | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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