Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 60
So they turned back home, and they had hardly sat down when the thunder clapped and the ceiling was divided into two, and a Crow flew in.
Who acts: skies, thunder, Crow · What happens: turn back, sit down, clap, divide, fly in · To what, where: 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 (skies, thunder, Crow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 home | advmod |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | aux |
| 10 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 11 sat | advmod |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 clapped | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thunder | det |
| 15 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clapped | nsubj |
| 16 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 divided | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ceiling | det |
| 19 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 divided | aux:pass |
| 21 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 clapped | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 two | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 divided | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 flew | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Crow | det |
| 27 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flew | nsubj |
| 28 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 flew | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past | skies = sky | home property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past · perfect | skies = sky | hardly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | clap | past | the thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | divide | past · passive | the ceiling | two | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly in | past | a Crow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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