Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 108
All the young folks were bustling about, washing themselves clean, combing their hair, and considering to whom should the great honour fall.
Who acts: young folks · What happens: bustle, wash, comb, consider · To what, where: folks, hair
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young folks), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 folks | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 folks | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 folks | amod |
| 4 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bustling | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bustling | aux |
| 6 | bustling | bustle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 bustling | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 washing | punct |
| 9 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bustling | conj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 washing | obj |
| 11 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 washing | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 combing | punct |
| 13 | combing | comb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bustling | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 combing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 considering | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 considering | cc |
| 18 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bustling | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 considering | obl |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 whom | aux |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fall | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fall | amod |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fall | compound |
| 25 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 should | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bustling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bustle | past · progressive | all young folks | about property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wash | gerund | all young folks not said here | folks = folk | clean property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 3 | comb | gerund | all young folks not said here | folks's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 4 | consider | gerund | all young folks not said here | whom obl | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
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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