Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 14
Two-eyes went to sleep, and Márya Tsarévna bowed down as before, to the right foot of the cow, and looked like a princess all day long.
Who acts: Two eyes, Márya · What happens: go, sleep, bow down, look
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two eyes, Márya), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bowed | cc |
| 9 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bowed | nsubj |
| 10 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Márya | flat |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 bowed | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 before | case |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 bowed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 foot | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foot | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 foot | amod |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bowed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cow | det |
| 22 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foot | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 looked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 princess | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | obl |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 long | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 looked | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Two eyes | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Two eyes not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bow down | past | Márya | to the right foot of the cow | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Two eyes not said here | like a princess; long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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