Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 62
The grey Wolf sprang from behind the bush, laid hold of one of the nestlings and was going to tear it in two.
Who acts: grey Wolf · What happens: spring, go, tear · To what, where: bush, hold, two
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 (grey Wolf), 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 Wolf | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wolf | amod |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bush | case |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 bush | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bush | det |
| 8 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hold | punct |
| 10 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | amod |
| 11 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bush | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hold | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 nestlings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nestlings | det |
| 16 | nestlings | nestling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 going | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sprang | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 tear | mark |
| 21 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tear | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 two | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 tear | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the grey Wolf | the bush and laid hold of one of the nestlings | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bush=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the grey Wolf not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tear | to-infinitive | the grey Wolf not said here | hold | two | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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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