Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 146
So he went out of the palace beyond the city, and went on and on, and at last he met an old woman on the road who asked him, “What are you thinking of, doughty youth?”
Who acts: king, road · What happens: go out, go, meet, ask, be · To what, where: palace, old woman, last, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, road), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 on | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 on | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 met | nsubj |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obl |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 asked | nsubj |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 road | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 asked | iobj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thinking | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 thinking | punct |
| 34 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 thinking | obj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 thinking | cop |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 thinking | nsubj |
| 37 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 met | advcl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 youth | case |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 of | punct |
| 40 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 youth | amod |
| 41 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thinking | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | king | the palace beyond the city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | king not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | king | a old woman | last | on the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the road | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | king | of doughty youth; What obj; think property | tree rules |
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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