Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 157
Then three pairs of hands came, laid hold of the poppies and carried them off.
Who acts: three pairs · What happens: come, carry off, hold · To what, where: laid hold, pairs, poppies
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three pairs), 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 | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pairs | nummod |
| 3 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pairs | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hold | punct |
| 8 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hold | amod |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 poppies | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poppies | det |
| 12 | poppies | poppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hold | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 carried | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | three pairs of hands | laid hold of the poppies | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry off | past | three pairs of hands not said here | pairs = pair | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | the poppies | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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