Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 116
So the old woman put her children to bed, called the cook and bade him take them whilst they were asleep into the wood, there kill them and extract their liver and their brains and get them ready for supper.
Who acts: old woman, head, children · What happens: put, call, take, be, kill, extract · To what, where: hen, cook, children, wood, liver · 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, children), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 put | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cook | det |
| 13 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cook | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 13 cook | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 22 asleep | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asleep | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 asleep | cop |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 take | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asleep | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 kill | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 kill | expl |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 kill | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 extract | cc |
| 31 | extract | extract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 kill | conj |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 liver | nmod:poss |
| 33 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 extract | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 brains | cc |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 brains | nmod:poss |
| 36 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 liver | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 get | cc |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 extract | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 get | obj |
| 40 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 get | xcomp |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 supper | case |
| 42 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ready | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the old woman | hen | to bed; children obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Asset child=Goal | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the old woman not said here | the cook and bade | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | present | head | children = child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | children = child | the wood | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | kill | present | children = child | there | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | extract | infinitive | children's liver and children's brains | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Theme | |||||
| 7 | get | infinitive | children = child | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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