Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 101
His two legs were cut off: the Tsarévna looked round and noticed a lofty stump at the edge of the road.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: cut off, look round, notice · To what, where: two legs, lofty stump, edge
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 legs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 legs | nummod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | aux:pass |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tsarévna | det |
| 9 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | parataxis |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 noticed | cc |
| 13 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stump | det |
| 15 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stump | amod |
| 16 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 edge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 edge | det |
| 19 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 road | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 road | det |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 edge | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past · passive | servant's two legs | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look round | past | the Tsarévna | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | the Tsarévna not said here | a lofty stump | the edge of the road | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stump=Stimulus |
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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