Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 27
But the birds drove her away from the bush and almost pecked out her one eye; and so with Two-eyes and Three-eyes.
Who acts: birds · What happens: drive away, peck out · To what, where: eye, bush, one eye
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 (birds), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 drove | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 drove | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bush | det |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pecked | cc |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 pecked | advmod |
| 12 | pecked | peck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bush | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pecked | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eye | nmod:poss |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eye | nummod |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pecked | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 so | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 so | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 drove | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 21 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 eyes | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Two | punct |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 so | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 eyes | cc |
| 25 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 eyes | nummod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Three | punct |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eyes | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away | past | the birds | eye | the bush | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from bush=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | peck out | participle | the birds not said here | eye's one eye | almost property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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