Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 66
She was very angry, and she called for her fiery shield, and leapt out on the chase, and set to waving her fiery shield in all directions to the four winds.
Who acts: Yagá · What happens: be, call, leapt out, set, wave · To what, where: chase, fiery shield · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yagá), 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 | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 shield | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shield | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shield | amod |
| 12 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leapt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leapt | cc |
| 15 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 leapt | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 chase | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chase | det |
| 19 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leapt | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 leapt | conj |
| 23 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 24 waving | mark |
| 24 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 set | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shield | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shield | amod |
| 27 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waving | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 directions | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 directions | det |
| 30 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 waving | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 winds | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 winds | det |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 winds | nummod |
| 34 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 directions | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Yagá | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Yagá | for Yagá's fiery shield | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for shield=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | leapt out | infinitive | the chase | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | wave | gerund | Yagá's fiery shield | in all directions to the four winds | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent shield=Patient in direction=Theme |
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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