Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 16
Then a boisterous wind rustled round and the three-headed snake appeared in front of her.
Who acts: boisterous wind · What happens: rustle, appear · To what, where: boisterous wind, front
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 (boisterous wind), 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 | 13 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 3 | boisterous | boisterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wind | amod |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wind | acl |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 rustled | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 snake | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snake | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 headed | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 three | punct |
| 11 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 snake | amod |
| 12 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rustled | conj |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle | participle | a boisterous wind not said here | the headed snake conj; round property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a boisterous wind | front of damsel | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=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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