Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 21
Then Vasilísa the Wise, the eldest, struck the earth, turned into a spoonbill, and flew away from the Tsarévich.
Who acts: Vasilísa · What happens: strike, turn, fly away · To what, where: earth, spoonbill, Tsarévich
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 (Vasilísa), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Vasilísa | advmod |
| 2 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wise | det |
| 4 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vasilísa | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eldest | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eldest | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 Vasilísa | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vasilísa | punct |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 earth | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 spoonbill | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spoonbill | det |
| 16 | spoonbill | spoonbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Tsarévich | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tsarévich | det |
| 23 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Vasilísa | the earth | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | participle | the earth not said here | a spoonbill | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into spoonbill=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | Vasilísa not said here | the Tsarévich | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tsarévich=Trajectory |
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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