Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 23
As soon as ever she came near she was breathing out fire and fury, gnashing her teeth and brandishing her fists.
Who acts: woman · What happens: come, breathe out, gnash, brandish · To what, where: fire, teeth, fists
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 (woman), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 ever | case |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 soon | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 breathing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 breathing | aux |
| 10 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 breathing | compound:prt |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breathing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fury | cc |
| 14 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fire | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gnashing | punct |
| 16 | gnashing | gnash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 breathing | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gnashing | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brandishing | cc |
| 20 | brandishing | brandish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 gnashing | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fists | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brandishing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | woman | ever | near, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | breathe out | past · progressive | woman | fire and fury | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gnash | gerund | woman not said here | woman's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 4 | brandish | gerund | woman not said here | woman's fists | 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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