Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 45
This time they forgot how the hours were flying by, and suddenly the witch stood in front of them.
Who acts: daughter, hours, witch · What happens: forget, not fly by, stand · To what, where: front
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 (daughter, hours, witch), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgot | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 flying | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hours | det |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flying | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flying | aux |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 forgot | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 flying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 stood | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 witch | det |
| 15 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgot | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 front | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | daughter | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fly by | past · progressive | the hours | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the witch | front of daughter | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
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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