Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 133
No sooner uttered than the geese flew straight up from the lake into the bag.
Who acts: geese · What happens: utter, fly · To what, where: No, lake
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 uttered | advmod |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 flew | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 geese | det |
| 6 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uttered | advcl |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 up | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 bag | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | participle · passive | No | soon property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the geese | the lake | into the bag | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination |
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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