Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 30
Wherever they went, they could not escape it, for the eyes followed them everywhere, and in the morning they were all burned to cinders.
Who acts: sisters, eyes · What happens: go, not escape, follow, burn · To what, where: skull, sisters, eyes
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 (sisters, eyes), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 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 | 8 escape | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 escape | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 escape | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 escape | advmod |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 escape | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 followed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eyes | det |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 escape | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 followed | obj |
| 16 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 followed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 burned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 burned | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burned | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 burned | aux:pass |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 burned | advmod |
| 25 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 escape | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 cinders | case |
| 27 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 burned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sisters = sister | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not escape | could | sisters = sister | skull | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the eyes | sisters = sister | everywhere property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | burn | past · passive | eyes = eye | morning | to cinders; all property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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