Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 60
Down she sat on the shovel with her legs nicely trussed together.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: sit, truss · To what, where: shovel
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 (Bába), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shovel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shovel | det |
| 6 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | obl |
| 10 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 11 trussed | advmod |
| 11 | trussed | truss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | advcl |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 trussed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Bába | the shovel | with Bába's legs; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shovel=Location | |||
| 2 | truss | participle | Bába not said here | nicely, together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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