Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 11
The Wood Sprite groaned, almost fell down from the stump, and that very instant jumped up again and crept into the thicket.
Who acts: Wood Sprite, instant · What happens: groan, fall down, jump up, creep · To what, where: stump, thicket
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wood Sprite, instant), 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 | 3 Sprite | det |
| 2 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sprite | compound |
| 3 | Sprite | Sprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 groaned | nsubj |
| 4 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 groaned | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 stump | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stump | det |
| 11 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 jumped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 jumped | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 instant | nsubj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 instant | advmod |
| 16 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 jumped | nsubj |
| 17 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 groaned | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 jumped | compound:prt |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 jumped | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crept | cc |
| 21 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 jumped | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 thicket | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thicket | det |
| 24 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crept | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | the Wood Sprite | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fall down | past | the Wood Sprite not said here | the stump | almost, down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from stump=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | jump up | past | instant that | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | creep | past | instant that not said here | the thicket | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into thicket=Destination |
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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