Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 164

Well, he walked and walked, and after a time he began to draw near to his native village.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: walk, begin, draw · To what, where: native village

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 walked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walked	cc
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 draw	mark
15	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	near	near	ADP	_	20 village	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 village	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 village	nmod:poss
19	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 village	amod
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 draw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	walk	past	soldier			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	soldier not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	soldier		time	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	draw	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	soldier's native village		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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