Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 148

Again the wise woman said, “I am dancing, I am prancing, I have eaten Iváshechko’s flesh!”

Who acts: wise woman · What happens: say, dance, prance, eat · To what, where: flesh · 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), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	5 said	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 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dancing	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 dancing	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dancing	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dancing	aux
10	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prancing	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 prancing	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prancing	aux
14	prancing	prance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dancing	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eaten	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 eaten	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eaten	aux
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 prancing	parataxis
19	Iváshechko	Iváshechko	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 flesh	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Iváshechko	case
21	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eaten	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 eaten	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the wise woman		again	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dance in a quote	present · progressive	the wise woman = woman			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prance in a quote	present · progressive	the wise woman = woman			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat in a quote	present · perfect	the wise woman = woman	Iváshechko's flesh		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 148

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 148