Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 92
The fence round the hut consisted of human bones, and on the stakes skeletons glared out of their empty eyes.
Who acts: fence, skeletons · What happens: consist, glare · To what, where: stakes
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 (fence, skeletons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fence | det |
| 2 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consisted | nsubj |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 hut | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hut | det |
| 5 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fence | nmod |
| 6 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bones | case |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bones | amod |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 consisted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glared | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stakes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stakes | det |
| 14 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glared | obl |
| 15 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glared | nsubj |
| 16 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consisted | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glared | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | the fence round the hut | of human bones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glare | past | skeletons | the stakes | out skeletons's empty eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stake=Location |
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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