Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 98
But the darkness did not last long, for the eyes in all the skeletons on the fence glistened, and it became as light as day all over the green.
Who acts: darkness · What happens: not last, glisten, become · To what, where: fence, green
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 (darkness), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 last | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 darkness | det |
| 3 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 last | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 last | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 last | advmod |
| 6 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 last | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 last | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 skeletons | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 skeletons | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skeletons | det |
| 15 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fence | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fence | det |
| 18 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skeletons | nmod |
| 19 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 fence | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 became | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 became | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 became | nsubj |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 last | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 light | advmod |
| 25 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 became | xcomp |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 light | obl |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 green | advmod |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 green | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 green | det |
| 31 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not last | past · do-support | the darkness | for the eyes in all skeletons on the fence; long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glisten | participle | the fence not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | darkness | the green | light property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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