Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 34
Its trembling leaves give it a weird appearance.
Who acts: trembling leaves · What happens: give · To what, where: magic
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trembling leaves), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 2 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | compound |
| 3 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 appearance | det |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appearance | amod |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | magic's trembling leaves | magic | a weird appearance obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient appearance=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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