Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 37
The twig had hardly fallen into the water before it sprouted up and became green and blue.
Who acts: twig · What happens: fall, sprout up, become · To what, where: 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 (twig), 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 | 2 twig | det |
| 2 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 fallen | advmod |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | obl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 sprouted | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sprouted | nsubj |
| 11 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sprouted | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sprouted | conj |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 blue | cc |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 green | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | the twig | into the water result; hardly property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | ||||
| 2 | sprout up | past | twig | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | become | past | twig not said here | green property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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