Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 142
The wise woman came with her guests and knocked at the hut; there was no reply, no one to open the door.
Who acts: wise woman, reply · What happens: come, knock, be, open · To what, where: door
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, reply), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 guests | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guests | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knocked | cc |
| 9 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knocked | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 reply | det |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reply | appos |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 open | mark |
| 22 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 open | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the wise woman | with WOMAN's guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | the wise woman not said here | at the hut | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at hut=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no reply | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | no reply not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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