Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 177
Thereupon the fair maiden opened her bag, and there were golden and silver vessels in it which she had stolen from the devils.
Who acts: fair maiden, golden vessels · What happens: open, be, steal · To what, where: bag, golden vessels
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 (fair maiden, golden vessels), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bag | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 were | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessels | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 golden | conj |
| 15 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 vessels | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stolen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stolen | aux |
| 21 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 vessels | acl:relcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 devils | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 devils | det |
| 24 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stolen | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the fair maiden | maiden's bag | thereupon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | golden vessels in bag | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steal | past · perfect · passive | golden vessels in bag | from the devils; maiden nsubj | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from devil=Source |
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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