Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 114
There is a span length between his brows, and between his ears there is a tempered dart.
Who acts: span length, tempered dart · What happens: be, temper · To what, where: ears
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (span length, tempered dart), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 length | det |
| 4 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 length | compound |
| 5 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 brows | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 length | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 is | cc |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 is | obl |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dart | det |
| 17 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 dart | amod |
| 18 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a span length between length's brows | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a tempered dart | length's ears; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between ear=Location | ||||
| 3 | temper | participle | 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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