Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 95
There is a garden behind the wall, and in that garden the Bird of Light is sitting in a golden cage.
Who acts: garden, Bird · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: garden
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 (garden, Bird), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 garden | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sitting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sitting | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bird | det |
| 14 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Light | case |
| 16 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Bird | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sitting | aux |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 is | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cage | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cage | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cage | amod |
| 22 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a garden behind the wall | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present · progressive | the Bird of Light | that garden | in a golden cage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=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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