Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 162
In front against it three long implements stand, the poker, broom and shovel.
Who acts: three long implements · What happens: stand · To what, where: poker, front
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 (three long implements), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stand | obl |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 front | nmod |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 implements | nummod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 implements | amod |
| 7 | implements | implement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stand | nsubj |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 poker | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 poker | det |
| 11 | poker | poker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stand | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broom | punct |
| 13 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poker | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shovel | cc |
| 15 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broom | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | three long implements | the poker and broom and shovel | front against front | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poker=Theme in front=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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