Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 49
“The crow has smitten the house of bronze, has pecked the fiery snake to death, has gained the seven _pud_ key.
What happens: smite, peck, gain · To what, where: crow, fiery snake, seven pud
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 smitten | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smitten | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 smitten | aux |
| 5 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smitten | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bronze | case |
| 9 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pecked | punct |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pecked | aux |
| 12 | pecked | peck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 smitten | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 14 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 snake | amod |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pecked | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pecked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gained | punct |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gained | aux |
| 20 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 smitten | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pud | det |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 pud | nummod |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 seven | punct |
| 24 | pud | pud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gained | obj |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 key | punct |
| 26 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gained | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smitten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the crow | the house of bronze obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer house=Result | ||||
| 2 | peck in a quote | present · perfect | the fiery snake | to death result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent snake=Patient to death=Result | ||||
| 3 | gain in a quote | present · perfect | the seven pud | key conj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pud=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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