Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 44
With his left leg he stepped on the threshold and with his right leg on the oaken table.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: step · To what, where: threshold
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 (Prince), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 leg | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 leg | nmod:poss |
| 3 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leg | amod |
| 4 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stepped | nsubj |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 threshold | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 threshold | det |
| 9 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leg | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 leg | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 leg | nmod:poss |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leg | amod |
| 14 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threshold | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 17 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 table | amod |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leg | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Prince | the threshold and Prince's right leg on the oaken table | with Prince's left leg | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on threshold=Trajectory |
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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