Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 103
Then she recollected she had kneaded the dough without saying the blessing, went up to it and crossed herself; and Potánka wanted to escape, but could not anyhow, because of the blessing.
Who acts: Potánka · What happens: recollect, knead, say, go up, cross, want · To what, where: dough, blessing, Potánka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Potánka), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 recollected | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recollected | nsubj |
| 3 | recollected | recollect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kneaded | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kneaded | aux |
| 6 | kneaded | knead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 recollected | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dough | det |
| 8 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kneaded | obj |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 saying | mark |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kneaded | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blessing | det |
| 12 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recollected | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crossed | cc |
| 19 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 crossed | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wanted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wanted | cc |
| 23 | Potánka | Potánka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wanted | nsubj |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recollected | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 escape | mark |
| 26 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wanted | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 anyhow | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 anyhow | cc |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 anyhow | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 anyhow | advmod |
| 31 | anyhow | anyhow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wanted | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 blessing | punct |
| 33 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 36 blessing | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 because | fixed |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 blessing | det |
| 36 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 anyhow | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recollected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recollect | past | Potánka | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knead | past · perfect | Potánka | the dough | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Potánka not said here | the blessing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | blessing | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | cross | past | Potánka | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||||
| 6 | want | past | Potánka | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | Potánka not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not anyhow | could | Potánka not said here | because the blessing | 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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