Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 16
Here begins the tale of a grey horse, a chestnut horse and of the wise fallow-bay.
Who acts: tale, grey horse · What happens: be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tale, grey horse), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 horse | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | compound |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bay | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bay | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bay | det |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bay | amod |
| 17 | fallow | fallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bay | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fallow | punct |
| 19 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the tale of a grey horse and a chestnut horse and the wise fallow bay | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell | a grey horse | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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