Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 61
So the maidens instantly put her into the oven, shut the oven door, and slammed her in; took their knitting with them, and their comb and brush, and ran away.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: put, shut, slam in, take, run away · To what, where: Bába, oven, oven door, knitting
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), 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 | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maidens | det |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 maidens | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 oven | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oven | det |
| 9 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shut | punct |
| 11 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 13 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | compound |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slammed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 slammed | cc |
| 17 | slammed | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slammed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 slammed | compound:prt |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 knitting | nmod:poss |
| 23 | knitting | knitting | NOUN | _ | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 comb | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 comb | cc |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 comb | nmod:poss |
| 29 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brush | cc |
| 31 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 comb | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ran | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ran | cc |
| 34 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 ran | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the maidens | Bába | the oven | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 2 | shut | infinitive | the maidens not said here | the oven door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slam in | past | the maidens not said here | Bába | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the maidens not said here | doors's knitting | with doors = door; doors's comb and brush parataxis | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knitting=Theme | |||
| 5 | run away | past | the maidens not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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