Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 64
One day the merchant had to go away on business for a long time; so the stepmother in the meantime went over to a new house near a dense, slumbrous forest.
Who acts: merchant, stepmother · What happens: have, go away, go over · To what, where: business, dense slumbrous forest
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, stepmother), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 business | case |
| 10 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stepmother | det |
| 18 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 meantime | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meantime | det |
| 21 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stepmother | nmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 house | amod |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 28 | near | near | ADP | _ | 33 forest | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 forest | det |
| 30 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 forest | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dense | punct |
| 32 | slumbrous | slumbrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 forest | amod |
| 33 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the merchant | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go away | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | business | time | away property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on business=Location | ||
| 3 | go over | past | the stepmother in the meantime | a dense slumbrous forest | to a new house; over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near forest=Location |
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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