Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 24
The peasant’s hands shook with fear, and the withy broke, and the squint-eyed woman clashed down as before into Hell.
Who acts: hands, withy, eyed woman · What happens: shook, break, clash down · To what, where: Hell
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 (hands, withy, eyed 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 peasant | case |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 5 | shook | shook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 broke | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 broke | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 withy | det |
| 11 | withy | withy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broke | nsubj |
| 12 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shook | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clashed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clashed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 16 | squint | squint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyed | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 squint | punct |
| 18 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clashed | nsubj |
| 20 | clashed | clash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 broke | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 clashed | compound:prt |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 before | case |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 clashed | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 Hell | case |
| 25 | Hell | Hell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 clashed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shook | present | the peasant's hands | with fear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past | the withy | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | clash down | participle | the eyed woman | Hell | before property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hell=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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