Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 131

He went on and on, may-be far, may-be near, may-be short, may-be long, and arrived at a lake, on which three wild geese were swimming.

Who acts: wish, three wild geese · What happens: go, be, arrive, swim · To what, where: lake

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wish, three wild geese), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 near	punct
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 near	aux
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 far	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 far	cop
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 near	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 far	punct
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 near	aux
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 near	punct
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 near	cop
15	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 short	punct
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 short	aux
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 short	punct
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 short	cop
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 near	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 long	punct
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 long	aux
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 long	punct
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 long	cop
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 short	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arrived	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 arrived	cc
28	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 lake	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lake	det
31	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 arrived	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 swimming	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 swimming	obl
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 geese	nummod
36	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 geese	amod
37	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 swimming	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 swimming	aux
39	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 arrived	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	wish			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	infinitive			far property	tree rules
3	is	may			near property	tree rules
4	is	may			short property	tree rules
5	is	may			long property	tree rules
6	arrive	past	wish not said here	a lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	swim	past · progressive	three wild geese		which obl	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 131