Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 44
The maidens once more set to work, sewed, laughed, and thought how they might escape the evil witch.
Who acts: maidens, daughter · What happens: work, sew, laugh, think, escape · To what, where: evil witch · 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 (maidens, daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maidens | det |
| 2 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sewed | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 set | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 maidens | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 work | mark |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 maidens | punct |
| 9 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sewed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laughed | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 escape | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 escape | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 escape | aux |
| 18 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 witch | det |
| 20 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 witch | amod |
| 21 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 escape | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | to-infinitive | the maidens not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sew | past | the maidens | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the maidens not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the maidens not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | escape | might | daughter | the evil witch | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme witch=Initial_Location |
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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