Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 91
So the old man made a little nest and he put the hen under the stove.
Who acts: old man, ZAMORÝSHEK · What happens: make, put · To what, where: little nest, hen, stove
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 man, ZAMORÝSHEK), 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 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nest | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nest | amod |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hen | det |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 stove | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stove | det |
| 16 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the old man | a little nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | ||||
| 2 | put | past | ZAMORÝSHEK = zamorýshek | the hen | the stove | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hen=Theme under stove=Destination |
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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