Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 117
The cook took the children into the slumbrous forest, stopped, and made ready to whet the knife.
Who acts: cook · What happens: take, stop, make, whet · To what, where: children, slumbrous forest, knife
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), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 8 | slumbrous | slumbrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | conj |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 whet | mark |
| 17 | whet | whet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knife | det |
| 19 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whet | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the cook | the children | the slumbrous forest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme into forest=Destination | |||
| 2 | stop | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | whet | to-infinitive | the knife | tree rules |
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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