Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 101
She was starting to wash herself, busk herself, and make ready for the feast, and that moment Alyósha Popóvich seized her little chain, ran up into the palace, and showed it to Danílo the Unfortunate.
Who acts: Mocker, moment · What happens: start, wash, busk, make, seize, run up · To what, where: Mocker, little chain, palace, chain, Danílo
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mocker, moment), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 starting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 starting | aux |
| 3 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wash | mark |
| 5 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 starting | xcomp |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 wash | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 busk | punct |
| 8 | busk | busk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wash | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 busk | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wash | conj |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 feast | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ready | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seized | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seized | cc |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | nsubj |
| 21 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 moment | appos |
| 22 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Alyósha | flat |
| 23 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 starting | parataxis |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 chain | nmod:poss |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chain | amod |
| 26 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seized | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seized | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 ran | compound:prt |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palace | det |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 showed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 showed | cc |
| 35 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seized | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 showed | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Danílo | case |
| 38 | Danílo | Danílo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 showed | obl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Unfortunate | det |
| 40 | Unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Danílo | amod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · progressive | Mocker | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | Mocker not said here | Mocker | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | busk | infinitive | Mocker not said here | Mocker | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | Mocker not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | seize | past | that moment | Mocker's little chain | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run up | past | that moment not said here | into the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result | ||||
| 7 | show | past | that moment not said here | chain | Danílo | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to danílo=Recipient |
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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