Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 123
“Those are my two angels fluttering about.”
Who acts: Those · What happens: flutter
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those), 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 fluttering | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 fluttering | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fluttering | aux |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 angels | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 angels | nummod |
| 6 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fluttering | nsubj |
| 7 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 fluttering | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fluttering | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fluttering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter in a quote | present · progressive | Those | my two angels nsubj; about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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