Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 31
His belly burst, and out of it crept snakes, worms and vermin of all sorts, and there flew jackdaws and magpies.
Who acts: belly burst, wizard · What happens: creep, fly, burst · To what, where: snakes, pile, jackdaws
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (belly burst, wizard), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 burst | nmod:poss |
| 2 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | compound |
| 3 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crept | cc |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 crept | obl |
| 9 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crept | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worms | punct |
| 12 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 snakes | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vermin | cc |
| 14 | vermin | vermin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 snakes | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sorts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sorts | det |
| 17 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vermin | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flew | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 flew | expl |
| 21 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crept | conj |
| 22 | jackdaws | jackdaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flew | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 magpies | cc |
| 24 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 jackdaws | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | wizard's belly burst | snakes and worms and vermin of all sorts | pile | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location snake=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past | wizard's belly burst not said here | jackdaws and magpies | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jackdaw=Theme | |||
| 3 | burst | wizard | nom burst «act transitive»: poss=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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