Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 141
“Oh, that’s easy enough!” said Alyónka; and as soon as she was on Iváshechko shoved her into the stove, slammed the door to and went out of the hut, and climbed a great big tall oak-tree.
Who acts: that, Alyónka · What happens: be, say, slam, go out, climb · To what, where: Iváshechko, door, hut, great big tall oak tree · 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 (that, Alyónka), 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 | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 easy | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 easy | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | cop |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Alyónka | Alyónka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 slammed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 slammed | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 slammed | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 shoved | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shoved | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shoved | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Iváshechko | case |
| 20 | Iváshechko | Iváshechko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 shoved | obl |
| 21 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 soon | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shoved | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 stove | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stove | det |
| 25 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shoved | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 slammed | punct |
| 27 | slammed | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 slammed | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 slammed | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 slammed | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 hut | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hut | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hut | det |
| 36 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 climbed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 climbed | cc |
| 39 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 slammed | parataxis |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 tree | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tree | amod |
| 42 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tree | amod |
| 43 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tree | amod |
| 44 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tree | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 oak | punct |
| 46 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 climbed | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | easy, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Alyónka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Alyónka | Iváshechko | into the stove; wife obj; shove property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | slam | past | the door | soon property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | the hut | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | climb | past | a great big tall oak tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme |
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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