Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 45
The Princess was utterly exhausted and had pined away to a shadow, and she could hardly stand on her legs.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: exhaust, pine away, stand · To what, where: Princess, legs
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 4 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 5 exhausted | advmod |
| 5 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pined | cc |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pined | aux |
| 8 | pined | pine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 exhausted | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 pined | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shadow | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shadow | det |
| 12 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pined | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stand | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stand | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stand | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stand | aux |
| 17 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 18 stand | advmod |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 exhausted | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 legs | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 legs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stand | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exhausted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | past · passive | the Princess | utterly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pine away | past · perfect | to a shadow; away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | stand | could | Princess | Princess's legs | hardly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
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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