Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 19
The sister went farther under the earth, and she saw a little hut standing on cocks’ feet and turning round.
Who acts: sister, little hut · What happens: go, see, stand, turn round · To what, where: little hut, feet
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, little hut), 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 | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 farther | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hut | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hut | amod |
| 14 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 hut | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 17 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 17 cocks | case |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 standing | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turning | cc |
| 21 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 standing | conj |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 turning | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the sister | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sister | a little hut | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a little hut not said here | cocks's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location | ||||
| 4 | turn round | gerund | a little hut not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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