Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 123
And he commanded the next daughter in the same way to dress herself finely and to stand on the steps.
Who acts: man · What happens: command, dress, stand · To what, where: next daughter, same way, Vóron · 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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 commanded | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dress | mark |
| 12 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 dress | obj |
| 14 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 12 dress | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stand | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stand | mark |
| 17 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dress | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 steps | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 steps | det |
| 20 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stand | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | man | the next daughter | the same way | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in way=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | dress | to-infinitive | man not said here | Vóron | finely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | stand | to-infinitive | man not said here | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
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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