Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 126
So the evil sisters walked about, called out and began to talk.
Who acts: evil sisters · What happens: walk, call out, begin, talk
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 (evil sisters), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sisters | compound |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 walked | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 called | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 talk | mark |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the evil sisters | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the evil sisters not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the evil sisters not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | talk | to-infinitive | the evil sisters not said here | vn talk-37.5 «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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