Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 130
Then the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, came out and stood at the window, and she said these words: “This is how we teach our husbands!”
Who acts: Swan bird, wife, This, we · What happens: come out, stand, say, be, teach · To what, where: window, words, husbands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Swan bird, wife, This, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 3 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Swan | punct |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 maiden | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | amod |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bird | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bird | punct |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 words | det |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 said | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 how | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 how | punct |
| 26 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 how | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 how | cop |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | parataxis |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 teach | nsubj |
| 30 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 how | advcl:relcl |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 32 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 teach | obj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 how | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the Swan bird and the fair maiden | then | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the Swan bird and the fair maiden not said here | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | This | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other in a quote | present | we | our husbands | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=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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