Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 103
And a day went by and a second, and at the dawn of the third day he saw a palace fairer than the first two.
Who acts: day, Eagle · What happens: go, see
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, Eagle), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 second | case |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 second | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 second | det |
| 8 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 dawn | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dawn | det |
| 13 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dawn | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fairer | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 two | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 two | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 two | amod |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 fairer | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a day | second | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Eagle | dawn | fair property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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