Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
“For this one day I may come, and to-morrow, but the next day I must fly away over the woods and over the hills.”
Who acts: little birds · What happens: come, fly away · To what, where: morrow, woods
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 (little 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 morrow | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 morrow | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 morrow | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fly | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 fly | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 fly | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fly | aux |
| 21 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 fly | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 woods | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woods | det |
| 25 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fly | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hills | cc |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 hills | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hills | det |
| 29 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 woods | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | may | little birds = bird | morrow | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fly away in a quote | must | little birds = bird | the woods and the hills | day | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over wood=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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