Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 44
Soon they reached the palace: the thunder rattled and the ceiling fell down, and the ceiling divided into two.
Who acts: summits, thunder, ceiling · What happens: reach, rattle, fall down, divide · To what, where: palace, ceiling, two
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 (summits, thunder, ceiling), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 reached | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rattled | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thunder | det |
| 8 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rattled | nsubj |
| 9 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reached | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ceiling | det |
| 12 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rattled | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 divided | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 divided | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ceiling | det |
| 18 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reached | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 divided | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | summits = summit | the palace | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | rattle | participle | the thunder | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall down | past | the ceiling | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | divide | participle · passive | the ceiling | two | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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