Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 69
“On the right-hand side there is an open field and on the left-hand side there is a house.”
Who acts: open field, house · What happens: be · To what, where: hand side
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (open field, house), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | compound |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | obl |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 field | amod |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 side | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 16 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 side | compound |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 field | conj |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 side | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | a open field and the hand side | the hand side; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a house | the hand side not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot side=Theme |
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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