Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 107
They hustled the Little Fool, thrust her about this way and that and forced her to work.
Who acts: WOLF, two · What happens: hustle, thrust, force, work · To what, where: Little Fool, two
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WOLF, two), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hustled | nsubj |
| 2 | hustled | hustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fool | det |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fool | amod |
| 5 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hustled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thrust | punct |
| 7 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hustled | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thrust | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrust | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 that | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forced | cc |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hustled | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forced | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 work | mark |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forced | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hustled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hustle | past | WOLF | the Little Fool | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Patient | ||||
| 2 | thrust | infinitive | WOLF not said here | two | about this way that | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | force | past | WOLF not said here | two | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | two not said here | vn employment-95.3 «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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