Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 113
Then the eagle turned round, and as he had no flesh, he tore a fragment out of Iváshko’s withers and ate it up.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: turn round, have, tore, eat up · To what, where: flesh, fragment, withers
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 (eagle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tore | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tore | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tore | advcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 flesh | det |
| 12 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tore | nsubj |
| 15 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fragment | det |
| 17 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tore | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 withers | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 withers | case |
| 20 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 withers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Iváshko | case |
| 22 | withers | wither | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tore | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ate | cc |
| 24 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ate | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 ate | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | the eagle | then | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | eagle | no flesh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tore | past | eagle | a fragment | Iváshko's withers | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eat up | past | the eagle not said here | fragment | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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