Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 111

Then she laid hold of me and crossed herself, and after three livelong days I got out, the pigs poking me about and I unable to escape!

Who acts: woman, I, pigs · What happens: lay, cross, get out, poke, escape, hold · To what, where: hold, woman, pigs, me

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 (woman, I, pigs), 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 laid	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hold	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crossed	cc
8	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 crossed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 days	nummod
14	livelong	livelong	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 days	compound
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 got	nsubj
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 got	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pigs	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pigs	det
21	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	obj
22	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 pigs	acl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 poking	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	22 poking	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 unable	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 unable	nsubj
27	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 got	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 escape	mark
29	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 unable	xcomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	woman	hold of me	then		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
2	cross	past	woman not said here	woman			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
3	get out	past	I	the pigs	day	out property	tree rules
4	poke	gerund	the pigs not said here	me		about property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Instrument
5	escape	to-infinitive	the pigs not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold			me			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 37, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 111