Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 123
Then the apple rolled about on the saucer; a transparency came over the silver; and, on the saucer, all the cities, one after the other, became visible, all the ships on the seas, and the regiments in the fields, and the heights of the mountains, and the beauties of the sky.
Who acts: apple, transparency, saucer · What happens: roll about, come, become · To what, where: regiments, saucer, silver
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, transparency, saucer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 rolled | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 saucer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saucer | det |
| 8 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 transparency | det |
| 11 | transparency | transparency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 silver | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 became | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 became | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saucer | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 saucer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 saucer | det |
| 21 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 became | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cities | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 cities | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cities | det |
| 25 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 saucer | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 cities | appos |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saucer | punct |
| 32 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rolled | conj |
| 33 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 became | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ships | punct |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 ships | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ships | det |
| 37 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 visible | obl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 seas | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 seas | det |
| 40 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ships | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 regiments | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 regiments | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 regiments | det |
| 44 | regiments | regiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 fields | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 fields | det |
| 47 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 regiments | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 heights | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 heights | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 heights | det |
| 51 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rolled | parataxis |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 mountains | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 mountains | det |
| 54 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 heights | nmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 beauties | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 beauties | cc |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 beauties | det |
| 58 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 heights | conj |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 sky | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 sky | det |
| 61 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 beauties | nmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll about | past | the apple | the regiments in the fields | the saucer | then | the heights of the mountains and the beauties of the sky parataxis; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saucer=Trajectory | |
| 2 | come | past | a transparency | the silver | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over silver=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the saucer | visible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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