Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 17
And the son dangled the rope down to the mother who was sitting in the boiling pitch.
Who acts: son, mother · What happens: dangle down, sit · To what, where: rope, boiling pitch
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, mother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dangled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dangled | nsubj |
| 4 | dangled | dangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rope | det |
| 6 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dangled | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 dangled | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dangled | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sitting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sitting | aux |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 mother | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pitch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pitch | det |
| 16 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pitch | compound |
| 17 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dangle down | past | the son | the rope | to the mother; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rope=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the mother | the boiling pitch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pitch=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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