Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 44
I serve the Woodsprite with the iron hands, the cast-iron head, and the body of bronze.”
Who acts: I · What happens: serve · To what, where: Woodsprite
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 serve | nsubj |
| 2 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woodsprite | det |
| 4 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 serve | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hands | det |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hands | compound |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 serve | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 head | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 11 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 iron | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 cast | punct |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | compound |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hands | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 body | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 body | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 serve | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bronze | case |
| 20 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 serve | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present | I | the Woodsprite | with the iron hands and the iron head; the body of bronze parataxis | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent woodsprite=Recipient with hand=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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