Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 3
And the dolls in the four corners began to sing:
Who acts: dolls · What happens: begin, sing
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 (dolls), 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 | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dolls | det |
| 3 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 corners | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corners | det |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 corners | nummod |
| 7 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dolls | nmod |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sing | mark |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the dolls in the four corners | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the dolls in the four corners not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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