Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 148
“If there were a column stretching from heaven to earth, I should turn the entire universe round.”
Who acts: Woodsprite · What happens: stretch, turn · To what, where: heaven, entire universe
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodsprite), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretching | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 were | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stretching | aux |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 column | det |
| 6 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 turn | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 heaven | case |
| 9 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretching | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretching | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretching | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 turn | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 turn | aux |
| 15 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 universe | det |
| 17 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 universe | amod |
| 18 | universe | universe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turn | obj |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 turn | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch in a quote | past · progressive | the Woodsprite = woodsprite not said here | heaven | to earth | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Location | |||
| 2 | turn in a quote | should | the Woodsprite = woodsprite | the entire universe | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent universe=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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