Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 25
She had been stolen from a village by the Unholy Spirit.
Who acts: Unholy Spirit · What happens: steal · To what, where: maiden, village
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 (Unholy Spirit), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stolen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 stolen | aux:pass |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Spirit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Spirit | det |
| 10 | Unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Spirit | amod |
| 11 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · perfect · passive | the Unholy Spirit | maiden | a village | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from village=Source |
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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