Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 44
And the snake trembled, and in a minute turned into a good youth.
Who acts: snake · What happens: tremble, turn · To what, where: good youth
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 (snake), 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 | _ | 4 trembled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trembled | nsubj |
| 4 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 minute | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 trembled | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 youth | amod |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | the snake | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | participle | a good youth | minute | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into youth=Trajectory |
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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