Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 160
Between the rafters and the sloped roof is the loft (_cherdák_), into which a ladder leads.
Who acts: sloped roof, ladder · What happens: slope, be, lead · To what, where: loft, rafters
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sloped roof, ladder), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 rafters | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rafters | det |
| 3 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 loft | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 6 | sloped | slope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 roof | amod |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loft | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 loft | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loft | det |
| 10 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rafters | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 cherdák | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 cherdák | punct |
| 13 | cherdák | cherdák | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loft | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 cherdák | punct |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 cherdák | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leads | punct |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 leads | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ladder | det |
| 20 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leads | nsubj |
| 21 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rafters | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rafters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slope | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the sloped roof | the loft | cherdák appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead | present | a ladder | the rafters and the loft | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into which=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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