Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 32

Then again the apple rolled on the saucer, the crystal on the silver, and the sky was red on the saucer, and little sun after little sun made its round, and the stars gathered on their dance.

Who acts: sky, apple, stars, saucer · What happens: roll, be, make, gather, dance · To what, where: apple, saucer, dance

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 (sky, apple, stars, saucer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 again	advmod
2	again	again	ADV	_	4 apple	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apple	det
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj
5	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 apple	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 saucer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 saucer	det
8	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crystal	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crystal	det
11	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saucer	appos
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 silver	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 silver	det
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crystal	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 red	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 red	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sky	det
18	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 red	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 red	cop
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 made	nsubj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 saucer	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 saucer	det
23	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 red	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sun	amod
27	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 made	mark
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sun	amod
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 round	nmod:poss
33	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 made	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gathered	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gathered	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stars	det
37	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gathered	nsubj
38	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 dance	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 dance	nmod:poss
41	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gathered	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	participle		the apple not said here	the saucer		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saucer=Trajectory
2	is	past	the sky		the saucer	red property	tree rules
3	make	past	the apple			little sun nsubj; round property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material
4	gather	past	the stars		saucer's dance		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dance		saucer				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 6, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 32