Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 48
And the old man put both halves on the fire, and out of the fire there then crept snakes, frogs, and all sorts of reptiles.
Who acts: old man · What happens: put, creep, sort · To what, where: halves, fire, snakes, reptiles
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 halves | det |
| 7 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crept | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 fire | advmod |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 crept | advmod |
| 19 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 20 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crept | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 frogs | punct |
| 22 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 snakes | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sorts | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sorts | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 sorts | det |
| 26 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crept | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 reptiles | case |
| 28 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sorts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | the old man | both halves | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 2 | creep | past | snakes and frogs | the fire | then | all sorts of reptiles obl | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location snake=Theme | ||
| 3 | sort | reptiles | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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