Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 131
So the wise woman saw she must act the mother’s voice, so she ran to the smith and asked him, “Smith, just forge me a thin little voice like the one Iváshechko’s mother has, or I’ll eat you up!”
Who acts: wise woman, WOMAN, Smith, thin little voice · What happens: see, act, run, ask, forge, have · To what, where: voice, Iváshechko, wise woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise woman, WOMAN, Smith, thin little voice), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 act | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 act | aux |
| 8 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 act | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 smith | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smith | det |
| 19 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forge | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 forge | punct |
| 25 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 forge | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forge | punct |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 forge | advmod |
| 28 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 asked | ccomp |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 forge | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 voice | det |
| 31 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 voice | amod |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 voice | amod |
| 33 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 has | nsubj |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 mother | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Iváshechko | det |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 Iváshechko | nummod |
| 37 | Iváshechko | Iváshechko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 mother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 Iváshechko | case |
| 39 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 voice | nmod |
| 40 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 forge | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 eat | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 eat | cc |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 eat | nsubj |
| 44 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 eat | aux |
| 45 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 has | advcl |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 eat | obj |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 eat | compound:prt |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 forge | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 forge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the wise woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | act | must | WOMAN | the mother's voice | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | run | past | WOMAN | to the smith result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to smith=Result | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the wise woman not said here | Iváshechko | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | forge in a quote | infinitive | Smith | the wise woman = woman | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | a thin little voice like the one Iváshechko's mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | eat up in a quote | future | the wise woman = woman | Iváshechko | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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