Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 59
Then the fair maiden turned into a snake, crept on to the pike, crawled round the Cossack’s neck, coiled herself round his neck three times and put her tail between her mouth.
Who acts: fair maiden · What happens: turn, creep on, crawl, coil, put · To what, where: pike, neck, tail, mouth
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 (fair maiden), 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 | 5 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 snake | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crept | punct |
| 10 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 crept | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pike | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pike | det |
| 14 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crept | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crawled | punct |
| 16 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pike | acl |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cossack | det |
| 19 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Cossack | case |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crawled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 coiled | punct |
| 23 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | parataxis |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 coiled | obj |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 27 neck | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 neck | nmod:poss |
| 27 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coiled | obl |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 times | nummod |
| 29 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 coiled | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 put | cc |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 coiled | conj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 tail | nmod:poss |
| 33 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obj |
| 34 | between | between | ADP | _ | 36 mouth | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the fair maiden | then | into a snake result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into snake=Result | |||
| 2 | creep on | past | the fair maiden not said here | the pike | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pike=Destination | ||||
| 3 | crawl | participle | the pike not said here | the Cossack's neck | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round neck=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | coil | past | pike | Cossack's neck | time | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Theme round neck=Destination | |||
| 5 | put | infinitive | pike's tail | pike's mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme between mouth=Destination |
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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