Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 19
He strangled her until the heavens appeared to her as small as a sheepskin.
Who acts: Katomá, heavens · What happens: strangle, appear · To what, where: Bába
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 (Katomá, heavens), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 strangled | nsubj |
| 2 | strangled | strangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 strangled | obj |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 appeared | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heavens | det |
| 6 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 strangled | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 appeared | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 small | advmod |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 appeared | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 sheepskin | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sheepskin | det |
| 14 | sheepskin | sheepskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 small | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strangle | past | Katomá | Bába | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the heavens | Bába | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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