Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 14
So the sisters, the fair maidens, struck the grey earth and turned into spoonbills, spread their wings, and flew far away.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: strike, turn, spread, fly · To what, where: grey earth, spoonbills, wings
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 struck | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 maidens | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maidens | det |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maidens | amod |
| 7 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sisters | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 earth | amod |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 spoonbills | case |
| 16 | spoonbills | spoonbill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | parataxis |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spread | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 away | advmod |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the sisters and the fair maidens | the grey earth | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the sisters and the fair maidens not said here | spoonbills | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into spoonbill=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | spread | present | sisters's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly | past | the sisters and the fair maidens not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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