Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 121
And then there was a fine sight—heads flying about, blood flowing freely—and within one hour all the field was covered with corpses.
Who acts: heads, blood · What happens: be, fly, flow, cover · To what, where: fine sight, field
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 (heads, blood), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sight | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sight | amod |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 heads | punct |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sight | conj |
| 10 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 heads | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 flying | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blood | punct |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heads | conj |
| 14 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 blood | acl |
| 15 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 14 flowing | advmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 covered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 covered | cc |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 20 hour | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hour | nummod |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 covered | obl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 field | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 field | det |
| 23 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 covered | aux:pass |
| 25 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sight | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 corpses | case |
| 27 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 covered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a fine sight and heads and blood | heads and blood conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | heads and blood not said here | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | blood not said here | freely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | all field | hour | with corpses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with corpse=Theme |
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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