Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 116
So the sword flew out of his hands, cut down the trees, and laid them all down in regular boards.
Who acts: sword, hands · What happens: fly out, cut down, lay · To what, where: hands, trees, regular boards
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, hands), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hands | acl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trees | det |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laid | cc |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laid | obj |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 down | advmod |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 laid | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 boards | case |
| 21 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 boards | amod |
| 22 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past | the sword | man's hands | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut down | participle | man's hands not said here | the trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the sword not said here | trees = tree | regular boards | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in board=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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