Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 20
As soon as ever he sprinkled it with the water his daughter sprang up in front of him alive, and hung like a dove upon her father’s neck.
Who acts: man, daughter · What happens: sprinkle, spring up, hang · To what, where: body, front, neck
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 (man, daughter), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 sprinkled | mark |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 sprinkled | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 6 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprinkled | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprinkled | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprang | nsubj |
| 13 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 sprang | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprang | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 front | nmod |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sprang | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hung | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hung | cc |
| 22 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sprang | conj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 dove | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dove | det |
| 25 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hung | obl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 father | case |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hung | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | man | body | ever | with the water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme | ||
| 2 | spring up | past | man's daughter | front of man | alive, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 3 | hang | participle | man's daughter not said here | daughter's father's neck | like a dove | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon neck=Location |
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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