Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 34
On the way he met a three-headed dragon, and was very frightened.
Who acts: third · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: headed dragon, way
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 (third), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 headed | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 three | punct |
| 9 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dragon | amod |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 frightened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 frightened | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 frightened | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 frightened | advmod |
| 15 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 met | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | third | a headed dragon | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | frightened property | 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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