Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 56
So she flapped her wings, and she moved her little head, and said, “Turn to me with your white face; we will build for ourselves a princely house.
Who acts: body, we · What happens: flap, move, say, turn, build · To what, where: wings, little head, body, princely house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (body, we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 flapped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flapped | nsubj |
| 3 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flapped | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 moved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 moved | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 moved | nsubj |
| 9 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flapped | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flapped | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Turn | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Turn | punct |
| 18 | Turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Turn | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 face | amod |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Turn | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 build | punct |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 build | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 build | aux |
| 28 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 flapped | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 ourselves | case |
| 30 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 build | obl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 house | det |
| 32 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 house | amod |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 build | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | body | body's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | move | past | body | body's little head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | body not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | turn in a quote | infinitive | body | with your white face | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result | ||||
| 5 | build in a quote | future | we | a princely house | for ourselves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent house=Product for ourselves=Asset |
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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