Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 166
Enchanted trees were there and birds of paradise.
Who acts: Enchanted trees · What happens: enchant, be
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enchanted trees), 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 | Enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 trees | amod |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 birds | cc |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 there | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 paradise | case |
| 8 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 birds | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Enchanted trees | birds of paradise conj; there property | 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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