Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 131

And so she flapped her wings, moved her little head, and flew about: and there the guests sat on mounds in the bog.

Who acts: wife, guests · What happens: flap, move, fly, sit · To what, where: wings, little head, mounds

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, guests), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 flapped	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 flapped	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flapped	nsubj
4	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wings	nmod:poss
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flapped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moved	punct
8	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flapped	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 head	amod
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moved	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	about	about	ADV	_	14 flew	advmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 sat	expl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 guests	det
20	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 mounds	case
23	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sat	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 bog	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bog	det
26	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flap	past	wife	wife's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	move	past	wife not said here	wife's little head			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	fly	past				about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	past	the guests		mounds; there	in the bog	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 131