Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 39

She sniffed about the house, and said, “Daughter, my sweet daughter, my darling, tell me at once, why does it so smell of Russian bones?”

Who acts: witch, Daughter, Russian bones · What happens: sniff, say, tell, do, smell · To what, where: Daughter, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (witch, Daughter, Russian bones), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sniffed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sniffed	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Daughter	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Daughter	punct
11	Daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 daughter	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 daughter	amod
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Daughter	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 darling	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 darling	nmod:poss
18	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Daughter	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sniffed	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 tell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 does	punct
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 does	advmod
26	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 does	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 smell	advmod
29	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 does	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bones	case
31	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bones	amod
32	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 smell	nmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sniffed	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 sniffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	witch			about the house	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about house=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Daughter and my sweet daughter and my darling				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	witch not said here		Daughter and my sweet daughter and my darling = daughter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	do in a quote	present	witch not said here	house		smell of Russian bones obj	tree rules
5	smell in a quote		Russian bones				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 39