Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 126
So she dressed herself prettily and stood on the steps, and Crow Crowson seized her and carried her away.
Who acts: Vóron, Crow · What happens: dress, stand, seize, carry away · To what, where: Vóron
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 (Vóron, Crow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 dressed | obj |
| 5 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 steps | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 steps | det |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seized | cc |
| 13 | Crow | Crow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | nsubj |
| 14 | Crowson | Crowson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Crow | flat |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seized | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 carried | cc |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seized | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 carried | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | Vóron | Vóron | prettily property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Vóron not said here | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | Crow | Vóron | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry away | past | Crow not said here | Vóron | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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