Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 9
The two envious sisters trembled, paled, and their soul was in flames.
Who acts: soul · What happens: tremble, pale, be · To what, where: two envious sisters, flames
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 (soul), 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 | 4 sisters | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sisters | nummod |
| 3 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sisters | amod |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sisters | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 paled | punct |
| 7 | paled | pale | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 trembled | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flames | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flames | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soul | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flames | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flames | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 flames | case |
| 14 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sisters | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sisters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the two envious sisters and flames not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pale | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | sisters's soul | flames | 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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