Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 64
It was like two mountains falling on each other when Túgarin and Alyósha met.
Who acts: field, two mountains, Túgarin · What happens: be, fall, meet · To what, where: each
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 (field, two mountains, Túgarin), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mountains | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mountains | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 mountains | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mountains | nummod |
| 5 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mountains | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 falling | obl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 met | mark |
| 11 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 met | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Alyósha | cc |
| 13 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Túgarin | conj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 falling | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mountains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | field | like two mountains | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | two mountains not said here | each | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on each=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | Túgarin and Alyósha | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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