Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 19
I watched him, fired at him, and three feathers fell out of his wing.
Who acts: I, three feathers · What happens: watch, fire, fall · To what, where: bird, wing
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, three feathers), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fired | punct |
| 5 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 watched | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fired | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 feathers | nummod |
| 11 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 wing | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wing | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wing | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | I | bird | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fire | participle | I not said here | at bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | three feathers | bird's wing | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out wing=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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