Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 129

She wandered about with her sisters, plucked the strawberries, and saw a spade lying on the grass; then the other sisters took the spade and began beating the Fool with it, slew the Fool, buried her under a silver birch, and came back to their father late at night, saying, “The Little Fool ran away from us, we could not find her, we went all over the wood searching for her.

Who acts: transparency, spade, other sisters, Little Fool, we · What happens: wander, pluck, see, lie, take, begin · To what, where: strawberries, spade, grass, Fool, transparency, silver birch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (transparency, spade, other sisters, Little Fool), 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	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 wandered	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sisters	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nmod:poss
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plucked	punct
8	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 strawberries	det
10	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plucked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spade	det
15	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 spade	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 grass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 took	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sisters	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sisters	amod
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spade	det
27	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
30	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 began	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Fool	det
32	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beating	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 beating	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 slew	punct
36	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Fool	det
38	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 slew	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 buried	punct
40	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 buried	obj
42	under	under	ADP	_	45 birch	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 birch	det
44	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 birch	amod
45	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 buried	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 came	cc
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
49	back	back	ADV	_	48 came	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 father	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 father	nmod:poss
52	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 came	obl
53	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 father	advmod
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 night	case
55	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 came	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 saying	punct
57	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 came	advcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 ran	punct
59	“	"	PUNCT	_	63 ran	punct
60	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Fool	det
61	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 Fool	amod
62	Fool	Fool	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 ran	nsubj
63	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 saying	ccomp
64	away	away	ADV	_	63 ran	advmod
65	from	from	ADP	_	66 us	case
66	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 ran	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 find	punct
68	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 find	nsubj
69	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 find	aux
70	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	71 find	advmod
71	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 took	parataxis
72	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 find	obj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 went	punct
74	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	75 went	nsubj
75	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 find	conj
76	all	all	ADV	_	79 wood	advmod
77	over	over	ADP	_	79 wood	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 wood	det
79	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 went	obl
80	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	75 went	advcl
81	for	for	ADP	_	82 her	case
82	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 searching	obl
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	transparency				with transparency's sisters; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pluck	past	transparency not said here	the strawberries				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient
3	see	past		a spade				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spade=Stimulus
4	lie	gerund	a spade not said here		the grass			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
5	take	past	the other sisters	the spade		then		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent spade=Theme clause=Attribute
6	begin	past	the other sisters not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	beat	gerund	the other sisters not said here	the Fool			with spade	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fool=Patient with it=Instrument
8	slay	past	the other sisters not said here	the Fool				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Patient
9	bury	past	the other sisters not said here	transparency	a silver birch			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme under birch=Destination
10	come back	past	the other sisters not said here			night	to sisters's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
11	say speech: assert	gerund	the other sisters not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	run away in a quote	past	the Little Fool				from us; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from we=Trajectory
13	not find in a quote	could	we	transparency				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
14	go in a quote	past	we		the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over wood=Initial_Location
15	search in a quote	gerund	we not said here				for transparency	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 129

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 129