Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 65
So the maidens, in their need, threw the brush away, and a thick, dense coppice arose which she could not break through.
Who acts: maidens, thick dense coppice, coppice, doors · What happens: throw away, arise, not break through, need · To what, where: brush
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 (maidens, thick dense coppice, coppice, doors), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maidens | det |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 need | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 need | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 need | nmod:poss |
| 7 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maidens | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 maidens | punct |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brush | det |
| 11 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 threw | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arose | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arose | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 coppice | det |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coppice | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thick | punct |
| 18 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coppice | amod |
| 19 | coppice | coppice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arose | nsubj |
| 20 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 threw | conj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 break | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 break | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 break | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 break | advmod |
| 25 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 arose | ccomp |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 break | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | the maidens and doors's need | the brush | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme | |||
| 2 | arise | past | a thick dense coppice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not break through | could | coppice | which obj | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Patient | ||||
| 4 | need | doors = door | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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