Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 65
The Sun is thirty times the size it appears: looks very small because it is very high up from the earth.
Who acts: Sun, it · What happens: be, appear, look · To what, where: thirty times, earth
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 (Sun, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 times | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 times | cop |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appears | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 size | det |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 appears | nsubj |
| 9 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 looks | punct |
| 11 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appears | conj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 small | advmod |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looks | xcomp |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 high | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 high | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 high | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 high | advmod |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looks | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 high | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 earth | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 high | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sun | thirty times | the size nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | appear | present | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | present | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | present | sun | the earth | high property | tree rules |
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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