Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 155

But there was still no light in the bath, and the old woman shrieked out to him, “Dark! much too dark!”

Who acts: old woman · What happens: be · To what, where: man

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shrieked	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 light	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bath	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bath	det
9	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shrieked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shrieked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shrieked	nsubj
15	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 shrieked	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shrieked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Dark	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Dark	punct
21	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shrieked	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Dark	punct
23	much	much	ADV	_	25 dark	advmod
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 dark	advmod
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Dark	conj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 dark	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old woman		man			shriek property	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 155

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 155