Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 60
The feathers of the bird were all gold, but the eyes were like crystal of the East.
Who acts: feathers, eyes · What happens: be · To what, where: gold
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathers, eyes), 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 | 2 feathers | det |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gold | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bird | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feathers | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gold | cop |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crystal | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 crystal | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crystal | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 crystal | cop |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 crystal | case |
| 15 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 East | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 East | det |
| 18 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 crystal | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the feathers of the bird | all gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the eyes | like crystal; of the East | tree rules |
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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