Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 20
Off they went helter-skelter to the smiths, and the matter was soon arranged.
Who acts: servants · What happens: go, skelter, arrange · To what, where: helter, matter
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 (servants), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | helter | helter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 skelter | punct |
| 6 | skelter | skelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helter | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 smiths | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smiths | det |
| 9 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 skelter | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arranged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arranged | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 arranged | aux:pass |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 arranged | advmod |
| 16 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | servants = servant | helter | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location helter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | skelter | infinitive | servants = servant not said here | to the smiths | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrange | past · passive | the matter | soon property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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