Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 71
Then Zamorýshek shook the handkerchief on the left-hand side and the bridge vanished.
Who acts: Zamorýshek, bridge · What happens: shake, vanish · To what, where: handkerchief, hand side
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 (Zamorýshek, bridge), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shook | advmod |
| 2 | Zamorýshek | Zamorýshek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 handkerchief | det |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 8 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | compound |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vanished | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bridge | det |
| 14 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vanished | nsubj |
| 15 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Zamorýshek | the handkerchief | the hand side | then | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | vanish | past | the bridge | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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