Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 98
She will wash herself, busk herself, and put a little chain out of the window.
Who acts: house · What happens: wash, busk, put · To what, where: house, little chain, window
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 (house), 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 wash | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wash | aux |
| 3 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wash | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 busk | punct |
| 6 | busk | busk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wash | conj |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 busk | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wash | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chain | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chain | amod |
| 13 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | future | house | house | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | busk | infinitive | house not said here | house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | past | house not said here | a little chain | the window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chain=Theme out window=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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