Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 147
Make up four dolls and put them in the four corners of the room.
Who acts: you · What happens: make up, put · To what, where: four dolls, dolls, four corners
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Make | compound:prt |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dolls | nummod |
| 4 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Make | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 corners | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 corners | det |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 corners | nummod |
| 11 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 corners | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | imperative | you not said here | four dolls | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme doll=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | you not said here | dolls = doll | the four corners of the room | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in corner=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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