Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 72

The old woman rose up, wanted to fly over it, but fell into the fire and was burned to death.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: rise up, want, fly, fall, burn · To what, where: sea, fire

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 (old woman), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 rose	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fly	mark
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fly	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 burned	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 burned	aux:pass
20	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fell	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 burned	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the old woman			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	the old woman not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	sea		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
4	fall	past	the old woman not said here		into the fire result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into fire=Result
5	burn	past · passive	the old woman not said here		to death	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 72