Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 116
All the infernal powers roused themselves and looked out of the gates and windows with their unbreakable bolts.
Who acts: infernal powers, powers · What happens: rouse, look out, bolt · To what, where: powers, gates
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infernal powers, powers), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 powers | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 powers | det |
| 3 | infernal | infernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 powers | amod |
| 4 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roused | nsubj |
| 5 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 roused | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roused | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 gates | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gates | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gates | det |
| 12 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 windows | cc |
| 14 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gates | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bolts | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bolts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | unbreakable | unbreakable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bolts | amod |
| 18 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 windows | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past | all infernal powers | powers = power | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look out | past | all infernal powers not said here | the gates and windows with powers's unbreakable bolts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bolt | powers = power | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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