Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 37
Then the dragon, seeing his doom approach, came out into the open.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: see, come out, approach · To what, where: doom approach, open
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 (dragon), 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 | 3 dragon | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dragon | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 approach | nmod:poss |
| 7 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 approach | compound |
| 8 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 open | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 open | det |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the dragon not said here | dragon's doom approach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the dragon | the open | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | approach | dragon | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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