Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 51
So the mother and daughter carried firewood in, logs of oak and maple; made the oven ready till the flames shot up merrily.
Who acts: mother, flames · What happens: carry in, make, shoot up · To what, where: firewood, oven
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 (mother, flames), 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 | _ | 6 carried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 daughter | cc |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | conj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 carried | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 logs | punct |
| 10 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 oak | case |
| 12 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 logs | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 maple | cc |
| 14 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oak | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oven | det |
| 18 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 shot | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flames | det |
| 22 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shot | nsubj |
| 23 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 shot | compound:prt |
| 25 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 23 shot | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in | past | the mother and daughter | firewood | logs of oak and maple obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme firewood=Beneficiary log=Value | |||
| 2 | make | past | the mother and daughter not said here | the oven | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oven=Product | |||
| 3 | shoot up | past | the flames | merrily property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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