Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 115
She did, and came upon the Singing-Tree, and in it all sorts of birds were singing.
Who acts: girl, sorts · What happens: do, come, sing, sort · To what, where: Singing Tree, path, birds
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sorts), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 Tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tree | det |
| 8 | Singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Singing | punct |
| 10 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 singing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 singing | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 singing | obl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sorts | det |
| 16 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 singing | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 birds | case |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sorts | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 singing | aux |
| 20 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | girl not said here | the Singing Tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | all sorts of birds | path | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 4 | sort | birds | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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