Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 41
She went into the garden, and she saw the serpent lying dead in the pond!
Who acts: serpent · What happens: go, see, lie · To what, where: garden, serpent, pond
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 (serpent), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 serpent | det |
| 11 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 serpent | acl |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lying | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pond | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pond | det |
| 16 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | serpent | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | serpent | the serpent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the serpent not said here | the pond | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pond=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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