Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 99
And she at once turned the horses into a green meadow, Iván Tsarévich into an old shepherd, and herself into a brooding lamb.
Who acts: hunt · What happens: turn · To what, where: horses, green meadow
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 (hunt), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turned | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 turned | obl |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horses | det |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 meadow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 meadow | det |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meadow | amod |
| 11 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Iván | punct |
| 13 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 meadow | appos |
| 14 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Iván | flat |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 shepherd | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shepherd | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shepherd | amod |
| 18 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 herself | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 herself | cc |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 turned | obl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 lamb | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lamb | det |
| 24 | brooding | brooding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lamb | compound |
| 25 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | hunt | the horses | a green meadow | into a old shepherd; into a brooding lamb; hunt obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at once=Source into meadow=Trajectory into shepherd=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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