Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 24
The merchant’s daughter was fearfully afraid of lying on a single bed with such a formless monster.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: single bed
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 (daughter), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 merchant | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | cop |
| 6 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 7 afraid | advmod |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 lying | mark |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 afraid | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bed | amod |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 monster | case |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 monster | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 monster | det |
| 17 | formless | formless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monster | amod |
| 18 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the merchant's daughter | afraid, fearfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the merchant's daughter not said here | a single bed | with such formless monster | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=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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