Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 29

So they chattered along; and soon, at the right time before the mother came, the fair maiden turned her guest into a needle, stuck her into the besom and put it on one side.

Who acts: doors, mother, fair maiden · What happens: chatter, come, turn, stick, put · To what, where: guest, needle, maiden, besom, one side

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 (doors, mother, fair maiden), 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	_	3 chattered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chattered	nsubj
3	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 chattered	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turned	cc
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 turned	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soon	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maiden	det
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 maiden	amod
20	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	nsubj
21	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chattered	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 guest	nmod:poss
23	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 needle	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 needle	det
26	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turned	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stuck	punct
28	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chattered	parataxis
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stuck	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 besom	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 besom	det
32	besom	besom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuck	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
34	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stuck	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 put	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 side	nummod
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chatter	past	doors = door				along property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the mother					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	past	the fair maiden	maiden's guest	a needle	time	soon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent guest=Theme into needle=Trajectory
4	stick	past		maiden	the besom			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into besom=Destination
5	put	infinitive		guest	one side			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 29