Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 92
“It is now the very midst of winter and the frost is crackling.”
Who acts: corn, midst · What happens: be, crackle · To what, where: midst
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, midst), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 crackling | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 midst | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 midst | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 midst | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 midst | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 midst | advmod |
| 7 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crackling | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 winter | case |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 midst | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 frost | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 frost | det |
| 12 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 midst | conj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 crackling | aux |
| 14 | crackling | crackle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 crackling | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 crackling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | corn | the midst and the frost | now; winter | the frost conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | crackle in a quote | present · progressive | the midst and the frost | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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