Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 23
Then Vasilísa ran home as fast as she could by the light of the skull; and the flash in it went out with the dawn.
Who acts: Vasilísa, flash · What happens: run, go out, light · To what, where: skull
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa, flash), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fast | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 skull | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skull | det |
| 15 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flash | det |
| 19 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flash | nmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 dawn | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dawn | det |
| 26 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Vasilísa | then | by the light of the skull; fast, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by light=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go out | past | the flash in skull | dawn | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | light | the skull | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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