Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 49
Then he took the two parts out of the fire, rinsed them thoroughly in the sea, sprinkled them over with water, made the sign of the cross, and Olyóna arose such a beauty as no tale can tell and no pen can write.
Who acts: man, Olyóna, tale, pen · What happens: take, rinse, sprinkle over, make, arise, tell · To what, where: two parts, fire, parts, sea, sign, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, Olyóna, tale, pen), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parts | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 parts | nummod |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rinsed | punct |
| 12 | rinsed | rinse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rinsed | obj |
| 14 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 12 rinsed | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rinsed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprinkled | punct |
| 19 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sprinkled | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 sprinkled | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprinkled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sign | det |
| 27 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cross | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cross | det |
| 30 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sign | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 arose | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 arose | cc |
| 33 | Olyóna | Olyóna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 arose | nsubj |
| 34 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 35 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 beauty | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 beauty | det |
| 37 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 arose | obj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 tell | mark |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 tale | det |
| 40 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tell | nsubj |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 tell | aux |
| 42 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 arose | advcl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 write | cc |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 pen | det |
| 45 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 write | nsubj |
| 46 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 write | aux |
| 47 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 tell | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | the two parts | the fire | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent part=Theme out fire=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | rinse | past | man not said here | parts = part | the sea | thoroughly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | ||
| 3 | sprinkle over | past | man not said here | parts = part | with water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with water=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | man not said here | the sign of the cross | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | ||||
| 5 | arise | past | Olyóna | such beauty | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beauty=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | can | no tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | write | can | no pen | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sign | the cross | nom sign «communication 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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