Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 43
In the standing wood, in the grey-clad forest, stands a little hut, not thatched, not wattled; and, in the little hut, lies the evil witch of Kíev.
What happens: stand, not thatch, not wattle, lie · To what, where: little hut, standing wood, evil witch
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 wood | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wood | det |
| 3 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wood | compound |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forest | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forest | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 grey | punct |
| 10 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forest | amod |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wood | punct |
| 13 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hut | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hut | amod |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stands | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thatched | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 thatched | advmod |
| 19 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hut | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wattled | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 wattled | advmod |
| 22 | wattled | wattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thatched | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 lies | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lies | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 and | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hut | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hut | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hut | amod |
| 29 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lies | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hut | punct |
| 31 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stands | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 witch | det |
| 33 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 witch | amod |
| 34 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lies | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Kíev | case |
| 36 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 witch | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a little hut | the standing wood and the grey clad forest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme in wood=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not thatch | participle | a little hut not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not wattle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lie | present | the evil witch of Kíev | the little hut | tree rules |
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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