Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 115
Wherever he turned, heads flew: it was like mowing hay.
Who acts: horse, heads, head · What happens: turn, fly, mow · To what, where: hay
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, heads, head), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 mowing | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mowing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mowing | aux |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 mowing | mark |
| 11 | mowing | mow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 flew | conj |
| 12 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mowing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | horse | wherever property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | heads | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mow | past · progressive | head | hay | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument hay=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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