Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 115
The old woman followed him and wheedled, but he still insisted: “You bring your children, take their liver out and brains, and give them me for supper; otherwise I will have nothing to do with you.”
Who acts: old woman, head, You · What happens: follow, wheedle, insist, bring, take out, give · To what, where: head, children, liver, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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, head, You), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wheedled | cc |
| 7 | wheedled | wheedle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 insisted | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 insisted | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 insisted | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 insisted | advmod |
| 12 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bring | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 insisted | ccomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bring | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 bring | parataxis |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 liver | nmod:poss |
| 22 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 take | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brains | cc |
| 25 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 take | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 give | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 give | cc |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 give | iobj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 supper | case |
| 32 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 34 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 37 have | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 have | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 have | aux |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 37 have | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 do | mark |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 nothing | acl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 you | case |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 do | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the old woman | head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wheedle | past | the old woman not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | insist speech: other | past | head | still | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | present | You | your children | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | ||||
| 5 | take out in a quote | infinitive | children's liver | brains conj; out property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give in a quote | infinitive | head | for supper; children = child iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient i=Theme for supper=Asset | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | future | head | nothing | otherwise property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 8 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | head not said here | nothing not said here | with you | vn act-114-1 «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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