Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 22
And the witch became furious, gnashed her teeth and made ready to pursue Iván Tsarévich.
Who acts: witch · What happens: become, gnash, make, pursue · To what, where: teeth, Iván
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 (witch), 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 became | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gnashed | punct |
| 7 | gnashed | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gnashed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gnashed | conj |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pursue | mark |
| 14 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ready | xcomp |
| 15 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pursue | obj |
| 16 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Iván | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the witch | furious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gnash | past | the witch not said here | witch's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the witch not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | pursue | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | Iván | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Theme |
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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