Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 133
So the good youth glimpsed down, and he saw a fearful, huge bird flying into the garden and overthrowing the trees.
Who acts: good youth, youth, fearful huge bird · What happens: glimpse down, see, fly, overthrow · To what, where: fearful huge bird, garden, trees
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good youth, youth, fearful huge bird), 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 | _ | 5 glimpsed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glimpsed | nsubj |
| 5 | glimpsed | glimpse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 glimpsed | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glimpsed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 12 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bird | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fearful | punct |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bird | amod |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 bird | acl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 overthrowing | cc |
| 21 | overthrowing | overthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 flying | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 overthrowing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glimpsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glimpse down | participle | the good youth | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | past | youth | a fearful huge bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | a fearful huge bird not said here | into the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | ||||
| 4 | overthrow | gerund | a fearful huge bird not said here | the trees | tree rules |
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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