Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 127
He made one more effort, turned round once more, and, as fire leaps to the eyes, he instantly kissed and smacked Eléna the Fair on the lips.
Who acts: tale, fire · What happens: make, turn round, leap, kiss, smack · To what, where: one more effort, eyes, Eléna, lips
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 (tale, fire), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 effort | nummod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 effort | amod |
| 5 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 turned | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kissed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kissed | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 leaps | mark |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaps | nsubj |
| 16 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 kissed | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leaps | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaps | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kissed | nsubj |
| 22 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 23 kissed | advmod |
| 23 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 smacked | cc |
| 25 | smacked | smack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 26 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 smacked | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fair | det |
| 28 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 smacked | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 lips | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lips | det |
| 31 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 smacked | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | tale | one more effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 2 | turn round | past | tale not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leap | present | fire | the eyes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to eye=Destination | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | tale | instantly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | smack | past | tale not said here | Eléna | the lips | the Fair obj | 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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