Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 6
And the brother cried out again, “Sister mine, come in to the feather-bed!”
Who acts: brother · What happens: cry out, come in · To what, where: Sister mine, feather bed · 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 (brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cried | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 cried | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mine | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mine | punct |
| 9 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mine | compound |
| 10 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mine | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bed | det |
| 16 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bed | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 feather | punct |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the brother | Sister mine | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come in in a quote | infinitive | the feather bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=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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