Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 137

So the young shepherd broke a bulrush, made a pipe of it, and a wonderful wonder happened, a marvellous marvel: the pipe began of itself to sing and to speak.

Who acts: young shepherd, wonderful wonder, pipe · What happens: break, make, happen, begin, sing, speak · To what, where: bulrush, pipe, marvellous marvel · 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 (young shepherd, wonderful wonder, pipe), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 broke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shepherd	amod
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bulrush	det
7	bulrush	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pipe	det
11	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pipe	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 happened	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 happened	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wonder	det
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wonder	amod
18	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 happened	nsubj
19	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 marvel	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 marvel	det
22	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 marvel	amod
23	marvel	marvel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 happened	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pipe	det
26	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 itself	case
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 began	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sing	mark
31	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 speak	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 speak	mark
34	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sing	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	past	the young shepherd	a bulrush		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bulrush=Patient
2	make	past	the young shepherd not said here	a pipe of pipe		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pipe=Product
3	happen	past	a wonderful wonder	a marvellous marvel		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	the pipe		of pipe	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the pipe not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the pipe not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 137

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 137