Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 112
Then the flooring suddenly jumped up, and the witch began to search for Iván: “Where are you?
Who acts: flooring, witch, you · What happens: jump up, begin, search, be
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 (flooring, witch, you), 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 | 5 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flooring | det |
| 3 | flooring | flooring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 jumped | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumped | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 search | mark |
| 13 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Iván | case |
| 15 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 search | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Where | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Where | punct |
| 18 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 jumped | conj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Where | cop |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 Where | nsubj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the flooring | then | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the witch | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | for Iván | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for iván=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | where property | tree rules |
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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