Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 37
Grey geese were flying over it.
Who acts: Grey geese · What happens: fly · To what, where: bush
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 (Grey geese), 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 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 geese | amod |
| 2 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flying | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | aux |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flying | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · progressive | Grey geese | bush | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over it=Location |
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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