Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 136
The bird’s wings were swift, and very speedily it flew into a pit and vanished from sight.
Who acts: wings, wing · What happens: be, fly, vanish · To what, where: pit, sight
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 (wings, wing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swift | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swift | cop |
| 6 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 speedily | advmod |
| 10 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swift | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pit | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pit | det |
| 15 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vanished | cc |
| 17 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bird's wings | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | wing | into a pit result; speedily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pit=Result | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | wing not said here | sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location |
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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