Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 8
“Go to the village and collect one little egg from every house and put a brood hen over them, and, what will ensue, you will yourself see.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, collect, put, ensue, see · To what, where: village, one little egg, house, brood hen
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 collect | cc |
| 7 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 egg | nummod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 egg | amod |
| 10 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 collect | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 collect | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 collect | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hen | det |
| 17 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hen | compound |
| 18 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ensue | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ensue | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ensue | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 ensue | obj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 ensue | aux |
| 26 | ensue | ensue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 see | nsubj |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | collect in a quote | present | you not said here | one little egg | every house | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from house=Source | |||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a brood hen | over children = child | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hen=Theme over they=Destination | |||
| 4 | ensue in a quote | future | you not said here | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | future | you | yourself nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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