Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 79
“On the right-hand side there is the open field, and on the left-hand side there stands a house.”
Who acts: open field · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: hand side, house
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), 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 | _ | 22 stands | 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 | 22 stands | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 field | amod |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stands | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stands | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 17 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hand | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | compound |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stands | obl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 side | advmod |
| 22 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stands | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 stands | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the open field | the hand side; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | a house | the hand side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme on side=Destination |
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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