Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 150
So the old woman heated it, and he sent her there to steam herself.
Who acts: old woman, man · What happens: heat, send · To what, where: bath, woman, steam
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 (old woman, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 heated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heated | nsubj |
| 5 | heated | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heated | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heated | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 sent | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 steam | case |
| 14 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 sent | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | past | the old woman | bath | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | past | man | woman | steam; there | woman obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to steam=Destination |
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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