Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 170

Early next day the woman cooked a pancake on the stove, and whilst cooking it thought of her poor little boy Iván, and said: “Where is my Iváshechko?

Who acts: woman · What happens: cook, think, say, be · To what, where: pancake, Iváshechko · 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 (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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cooked	advmod
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooked	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooked	nsubj
6	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pancake	det
8	pancake	pancake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooked	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 stove	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stove	det
11	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	15 cooking	mark
15	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thought	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cooking	obj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cooked	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 boy	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 boy	nmod:poss
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	ccomp
23	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 boy	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cooked	parataxis
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Iváshechko	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Iváshechko	punct
29	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 Iváshechko	advmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Iváshechko	cop
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 Iváshechko	nmod:poss
32	Iváshechko	Iváshechko	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	ccomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	the woman	a pancake	day	on the stove; early property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pancake=Patient on stove=Instrument
2	cook	gerund		pancake			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	the woman not said here			WOMAN's poor little boy ccomp	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		my Iváshechko		my nmod:poss	tree rules

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 170

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 170