Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 2
So they followed the shepherd into the wood and to the knoll, and they were amazed at the beautiful flowers, ruby-red, sky-blue, that grew there.
Who acts: they, that · What happens: follow, amaze, grow · To what, where: shepherd, wood, beautiful flowers
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, that), 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 | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shepherd | det |
| 5 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knoll | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 knoll | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knoll | det |
| 12 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wood | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 amazed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 amazed | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 amazed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 amazed | aux:pass |
| 17 | amazed | amaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flowers | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flowers | amod |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 amazed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 red | punct |
| 23 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 red | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ruby | punct |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 amazed | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 blue | punct |
| 27 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blue | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 sky | punct |
| 29 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 red | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grew | punct |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 grew | nsubj |
| 32 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | conj |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 grew | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | they | the shepherd | the wood and the knoll | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme into wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | amaze | past · passive | wood | the beautiful flowers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | that | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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