Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 124

Sunset appeared after sunset and the stars gathered in their nocturnal dances: it was all so beautiful and so lovely as no tale can tell and no pen can write.

Who acts: Sunset, stars, APPLE, tale, pen · What happens: appear, gather, be, tell, write, dance · To what, where: nocturnal dances · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sunset, stars, APPLE, tale), 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	Sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 sunset	case
4	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appeared	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gathered	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stars	det
7	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathered	nsubj
8	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 dances	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dances	nmod:poss
11	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dances	amod
12	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathered	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 beautiful	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beautiful	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beautiful	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 beautiful	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 beautiful	advmod
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 appeared	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lovely	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 lovely	advmod
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beautiful	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 tell	mark
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 tale	det
24	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lovely	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 write	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 pen	det
29	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 write	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 write	aux
31	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	Sunset		sunset		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	past	the stars	stars's nocturnal dances			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	APPLE			all, beautiful property	tree rules
4	be		APPLE not said here				tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	can	no tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	write	can	no pen				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	dance		stars = star				nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 5, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 124