Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 116
She is described as a lovely beggar woman, with a pale face, low stature, and hare’s blood in her veins, and her cheeks of poppy red, and she entices men to drink their sorrow away in the public-houses, and is frequently turned into a moral lesson against over-indulgence.
Who acts: hag, cheeks · What happens: describe, entice, drink away, turn, sorrow · To what, where: hag, men, sorrow, public houses, moral lesson
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hag, cheeks), 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 described | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 described | aux:pass |
| 3 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 7 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | compound |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 described | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 face | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 12 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 described | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stature | punct |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stature | amod |
| 16 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blood | cc |
| 19 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blood | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 hare | case |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 veins | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 veins | nmod:poss |
| 24 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 blood | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cheeks | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cheeks | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 28 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 described | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 red | case |
| 30 | poppy | poppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 red | amod |
| 31 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cheeks | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 entices | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 entices | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 entices | nsubj |
| 35 | entices | entice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 described | conj |
| 36 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 entices | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 drink | mark |
| 38 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 entices | advcl |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drink | obj |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 drink | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 houses | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 houses | det |
| 44 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 houses | amod |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 public | punct |
| 46 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 drink | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 turned | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 turned | cc |
| 49 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 turned | aux:pass |
| 50 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 51 turned | advmod |
| 51 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 described | conj |
| 52 | into | into | ADP | _ | 55 lesson | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 lesson | det |
| 54 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 lesson | amod |
| 55 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 turned | obl |
| 56 | against | against | ADP | _ | 57 over-indulgence | case |
| 57 | over-indulgence | over-indulgence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 lesson | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | hag | as a lovely beggar woman; hag's cheeks of poppy red obl; a pale face and low stature and hare's blood in hag's veins conj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as woman=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | entice | present | hag | men | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | drink away | to-infinitive | hag not said here | cheeks's sorrow | the public houses | away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient | ||
| 4 | turn | present · passive | a moral lesson against over-indulgence | frequently property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into lesson=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | sorrow | cheeks = cheek | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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