Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 14
I will then seize her by her grey tresses,” It was said and done.
Who acts: I, grey tresses · What happens: seize, say, do · To what, where: Bába, knot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grey tresses), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seize | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seize | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seize | advmod |
| 4 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seize | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 tresses | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tresses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tresses | amod |
| 9 | tresses | tress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tresses | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tresses | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux:pass |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seize | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 done | cc |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | future | I | Bába | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · passive | Bába's grey tresses | knot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | participle | Bába's grey tresses not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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