Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 25
Then the daughter looked at them, but was simply staggered and understood nothing, and only afterwards, little by little, came to herself.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: look, stagger, understand, come · To what, where: nothing, daughter
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 (daughter), 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 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 staggered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 staggered | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 staggered | aux:pass |
| 10 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 11 staggered | advmod |
| 11 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looked | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 understood | cc |
| 13 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 staggered | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 understood | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 little | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 little | cc |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 afterwards | advmod |
| 18 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 20 little | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 little | punct |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 little | case |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 little | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 herself | case |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the daughter | then | at villages = village | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||
| 2 | stagger | past · passive | the daughter not said here | simply property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | understand | participle | the daughter not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the daughter not said here | daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_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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