Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 32
So the soldier bade the smiths stop, and as soon as he unbuckled the nosebag the devils rushed out, and flew off, without looking, into the depths of hell—into the abysses of hell.
Who acts: soldier bade, matter · What happens: stop, unbuckle, rush out, fly off, look · To what, where: nosebag, devils
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 (soldier bade, matter), 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 | _ | 7 stop | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smiths | det |
| 6 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bade | conj |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unbuckled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 unbuckled | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 unbuckled | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 unbuckled | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 unbuckled | nsubj |
| 14 | unbuckled | unbuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nosebag | det |
| 16 | nosebag | nosebag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unbuckled | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 devils | det |
| 18 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 unbuckled | obj |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 devils | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 rushed | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flew | cc |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unbuckled | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 flew | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looking | punct |
| 26 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 27 looking | mark |
| 27 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 flew | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 depths | punct |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 depths | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 depths | det |
| 31 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 looking | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 hell | case |
| 33 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 depths | nmod |
| 34 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 abysses | punct |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 abysses | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 abysses | det |
| 37 | abysses | abyss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 depths | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 hell | case |
| 39 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 abysses | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | the soldier bade and the smiths | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | unbuckle | past | matter | the nosebag | the devils obj; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rush out | participle | the devils not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly off | past | matter not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | gerund | matter not said here | into the depths of hell and the abysses of hell | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into depth=Theme |
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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