Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 79

As they went out of the church, Danílo the Unfortunate struck himself on the breast with the silver staff, and the birds sang and the lions roared; and all the folk were amazed and gazed at Danílo.

Who acts: eggs, Danílo, birds, lions · What happens: go out, strike, sing, roar, gaze · To what, where: church, DANÍLO

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 (eggs, Danílo, birds, lions), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 struck	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 church	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
9	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 struck	nsubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Unfortunate	det
11	Unfortunate	Unfortunate	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Danílo	appos
12	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 struck	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 breast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 breast	det
16	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struck	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 staff	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 staff	det
19	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 staff	compound
20	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breast	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 birds	det
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sang	nsubj
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 struck	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 roared	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lions	det
28	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 roared	nsubj
29	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sang	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 amazed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 amazed	cc
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 folk	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 folk	det
34	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 amazed	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 amazed	aux:pass
36	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 struck	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gazed	cc
38	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 struck	conj
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 Danílo	case
40	Danílo	Danílo	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gazed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	eggs = egg	the church		tree rules
2	strike	past	Danílo	DANÍLO = danílo	on the breast with the silver staff	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Instrument on breast=Patient
3	sing speech: express	past	the birds			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	roar	past	the lions			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	gaze	past	Danílo not said here		at Danílo	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at danílo=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 79