Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 21
Then the rope broke off, and the guilty soul once more flew down into the burning pitch.
Who acts: rope, guilty soul · What happens: break off, fly down, burn · To what, where: burning 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 (rope, guilty soul), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rope | det |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 broke | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 9 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soul | amod |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 flew | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 flew | advmod |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pitch | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pitch | det |
| 17 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 pitch | amod |
| 18 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | the rope | then | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly down | past | the guilty soul | into the burning pitch result; down, once property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pitch=Result | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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