Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 93

And, instead of the doorways and the gate, there were feet, and in the stead of bolts there were hands, and instead of the lock there was a mouth with sharp teeth.

Who acts: doorways · What happens: be · To what, where: mouth, stead

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 (doorways), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 were	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doorways	punct
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	6 doorways	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doorways	det
6	doorways	doorway	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gate	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doorways	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doorways	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mouth	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mouth	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 stead	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stead	det
18	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mouth	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 bolts	case
20	bolts	bolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stead	nmod
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 were	expl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bolts	acl:relcl
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 were	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 was	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 was	cc
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 lock	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lock	det
29	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 was	obl
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mouth	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mouth	det
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 were	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 teeth	case
35	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 teeth	amod
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 mouth	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the doorways and the gate			there		feet nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		a mouth		the stead of bolts		with sharp teeth	tree rules

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 93