Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 111
The cook twisted the hen’s neck and put her into the oven, and himself went out.
Who acts: cook, liver · What happens: twist, put, go out · To what, where: neck, cook, oven
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 (cook, liver), 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 | 2 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twisted | nsubj |
| 3 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hen | det |
| 5 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 hen | case |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twisted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 twisted | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 oven | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oven | det |
| 13 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 twisted | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | the cook | the hen's neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | past | the cook not said here | cook | the oven | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 3 | go out | past | liver | vn interact-36.6 «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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