Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 27
When she heard this the maiden was frightened, but could not fly anywhere.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: hear, frighten, not fly · To what, where: this, maiden
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 (maiden), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 frightened | aux:pass |
| 8 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fly | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fly | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fly | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fly | advmod |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 fly | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | maiden | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | the maiden | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not fly | could | maiden not said here | anywhere property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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