Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 35
The Tsarévna saw what a monstrous animal had been painted, with tangled hair, uncut nails and unwiped nose.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: see, paint, tangle · To what, where: monstrous animal
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsarévna | det |
| 2 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 painted | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 painted | aux:pass |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hair | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hair | case |
| 13 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hair | amod |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nails | punct |
| 16 | uncut | uncut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nails | amod |
| 17 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hair | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nose | cc |
| 19 | unwiped | unwiped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nose | amod |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nails | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Tsarévna | with tangled hair and uncut nails and unwiped nose; what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | paint | past · perfect · passive | a monstrous animal | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tangle | participle | 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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