Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 154
One day my father was angry with me and made a hasty wish that the Devil might take me.
Who acts: One day, Devil · What happens: be, make, take · To what, where: hasty wish
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, Devil), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 angry | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wish | det |
| 12 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wish | amod |
| 13 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 take | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Devil | det |
| 16 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One day | with me; my father nsubj; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | One day not said here | a hasty wish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product | ||||
| 3 | take | might | the Devil | a hasty wish | me obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme i=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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