Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 44
Then he took all the pieces, breathed on them for the last time, and the princess trembled all over, and woke alive and well.
Who acts: clove, princess · What happens: take, breathe, tremble, wake · To what, where: pieces
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 (clove, princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pieces | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pieces | det |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 breathed | punct |
| 8 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pieces | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 breathed | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breathed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trembled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trembled | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trembled | nsubj |
| 19 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 over | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 trembled | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 woke | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 woke | cc |
| 24 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woke | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 well | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 alive | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | clove | all pieces | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | breathe | participle | all pieces not said here | time | on doctors = doctor | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | |||
| 3 | tremble | past | the princess | over property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wake | past | clove not said here | alive property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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