Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 155
So he went to the well, and the coin slipped through his fingers and fell to the bottom.
Who acts: master, coin · What happens: go, slip, fall · To what, where: well, fingers
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, coin), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 well | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slipped | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coin | det |
| 10 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | nsubj |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 fingers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slipped | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bottom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottom | det |
| 19 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | master | the well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | the coin | master's fingers | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | master not said here | to the bottom | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bottom=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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