Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 110
The next day the old woman got supper ready, made ready to twist the hen’s neck and to roast it for supper with the head and the liver.
Who acts: old woman, supper · What happens: get, make, twist, roast · To what, where: supper, neck
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, supper), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 got | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 twist | mark |
| 14 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ready | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hen | det |
| 16 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 hen | case |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twist | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 roast | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 roast | mark |
| 21 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 twist | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 roast | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 supper | case |
| 24 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roast | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 head | det |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roast | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 liver | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 liver | det |
| 30 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the old woman | supper | day | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | make | participle | supper not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | twist | to-infinitive | supper not said here | the hen's neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roast | to-infinitive | supper not said here | neck | for supper; with the head and the liver | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with head=Instrument |
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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