Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 27
His speech finished, the grey Wolf struck the grey earth and he turned himself into Princess Eléna.
Who acts: speech, grey Wolf, Iván · What happens: finish, strike, turn, speak · To what, where: grey earth, Iván, Princess Eléna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speech, grey Wolf, Iván), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 speech | nmod:poss |
| 2 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 struck | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Wolf | amod |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finished | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 10 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 earth | amod |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 struck | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 turned | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 Eléna | case |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Eléna | compound |
| 18 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | Iván's speech | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | the grey Wolf | the grey earth | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | Iván | Iván | into Princess Eléna result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into eléna=Result | |||
| 4 | speak | Iván | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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