Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 100
For his daughter was a witch, and every night turned into a human being.
Who acts: night · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: witch
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 daughter | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 witch | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 witch | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 witch | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 human | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 human | det |
| 14 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 turned | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a witch | for king's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | every night | a witch not said here | into a human | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent witch=Theme into human=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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