Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 84
Just then the prophetic Nightingale flew out of its cage into the boat and sat on the boy’s shoulder.
Who acts: prophetic Nightingale · What happens: fly out, sit · To what, where: cage, boat, shoulder
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 (prophetic Nightingale), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 flew | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 flew | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Nightingale | det |
| 4 | prophetic | prophetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Nightingale | amod |
| 5 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cage | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cage | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 boat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sat | cc |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shoulder | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 boy | case |
| 20 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past | the prophetic Nightingale | boat's cage | the boat | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cage=Theme into boat=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | sit | past | the prophetic Nightingale not said here | the boy's shoulder | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=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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