Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 70
And he narrated how they had twisted the hen’s neck, and the mother again interrupted.
Who acts: son, jewels · What happens: narrate, twist, interrupt · To what, where: neck, mother
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, jewels), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 narrated | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 narrated | nsubj |
| 3 | narrated | narrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 twisted | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 twisted | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 twisted | aux |
| 7 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 narrated | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hen | det |
| 9 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 hen | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twisted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 interrupted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 interrupted | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 interrupted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 interrupted | advmod |
| 17 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 twisted | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 narrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | narrate speech: other | past | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | twist | past · perfect | jewels = jewel | the hen's neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 3 | interrupt | participle · passive | the mother | again | 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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