Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 9
Then twelve spoonbills flew along, struck the grey earth, and turned into fair maidens, who began bathing.
Who acts: twelve spoonbills, fair maidens · What happens: fly, strike, turn, begin, bath · To what, where: grey earth, fair maidens
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 (twelve spoonbills, fair maidens), 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 | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 spoonbills | nummod |
| 3 | spoonbills | spoonbill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 earth | amod |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 maidens | case |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maidens | amod |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 20 | bathing | bath | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | twelve spoonbills | then | along property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | past | twelve spoonbills not said here | the grey earth | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | twelve spoonbills not said here | fair maidens | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | fair maidens | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | bath | gerund | fair maidens not said here | tree rules |
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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