Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 36
She for sheer joy shouted out and fell upon her sisters.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: shout out, fall
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 (Tsar), 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 | 5 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 3 | sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | compound |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouted | obl |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 shouted | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shouted | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 sisters | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout out speech: express | participle | Tsar | for sheer joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Tsar not said here | upon Tsar's sisters | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sister=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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