Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 52
Then the witch took her broad shovel and said in a friendly voice: “Go and sit on my shovel, fair child.”
Who acts: witch · What happens: take, say, go, sit · To what, where: broad shovel, friendly voice, shovel · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shovel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shovel | amod |
| 7 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Go | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Go | punct |
| 16 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sit | cc |
| 18 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 Go | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 shovel | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shovel | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sit | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 child | punct |
| 23 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 child | amod |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shovel | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Go | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the witch | witch's broad shovel | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the witch not said here | a friendly voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | infinitive | my shovel and fair child | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shovel=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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