Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 166
The bath-house is separate from the hut, and contains a flight of steps for different degrees of heat, obtained from white-hot stones on which water is flung.
Who acts: bath house · What happens: be, contain, obtain, fling · To what, where: hut, flight, white hot stones, water
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 (bath house), 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 | 4 house | det |
| 2 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bath | punct |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 separate | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 separate | cop |
| 6 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 separate | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 contains | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 contains | cc |
| 12 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 separate | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flight | det |
| 14 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contains | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 steps | case |
| 16 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flight | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 degrees | case |
| 18 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 degrees | amod |
| 19 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 steps | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 heat | case |
| 21 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 degrees | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 obtained | punct |
| 23 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 contains | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 stones | case |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 white | punct |
| 27 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stones | amod |
| 28 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 obtained | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 flung | obl |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flung | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 flung | aux:pass |
| 33 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 stones | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 separate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bath house | the hut | separate property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | contain | present | a flight of steps for different degrees of heat | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flight=Theme | |||||
| 3 | obtain | participle | white hot stones | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from stone=Source | |||||
| 4 | fling | present · passive | water | white hot stones | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on 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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