Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 8
Then the poor nobleman broke off and plucked a single sprig, and the entire grove rustled.
Who acts: poor nobleman, entire grove · What happens: break off, pluck, rustle · To what, where: single sprig
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 (poor nobleman, entire grove), 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 | 5 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nobleman | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nobleman | amod |
| 4 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 broke | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plucked | cc |
| 8 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broke | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sprig | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sprig | amod |
| 11 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plucked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rustled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rustled | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grove | det |
| 15 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grove | amod |
| 16 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rustled | nsubj |
| 17 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 broke | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | the poor nobleman | then | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pluck | past | the poor nobleman not said here | a single sprig | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprig=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rustle | participle | the entire grove | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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