Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 64
At that same instant the snake disentangled herself from his neck, struck the grey earth, and turned into the maiden of his soul, vanished from his eyes as though she had never been there.
Who acts: snake, wall · What happens: disentangle, strike, turn, vanish, not be · To what, where: wall, grey earth, same instant, maiden, eyes
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, wall), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 instant | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 instant | amod |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 instant | appos |
| 7 | disentangled | disentangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 snake | acl |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 disentangled | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disentangled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instant | punct |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 15 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 earth | amod |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 maiden | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 soul | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 soul | nmod:poss |
| 25 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 maiden | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vanished | punct |
| 27 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 vanished | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 vanished | advmod |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 37 there | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 there | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 there | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 there | advmod |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 there | cop |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 vanished | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disentangle | participle | the snake not said here | wall | from Cossack's neck | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from neck=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | strike | past | the grey earth | that same instant | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the maiden of Cossack's soul | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maiden=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | vanish | past | Cossack's eyes | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | not is | past · perfect | wall | there property | tree rules |
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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