Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 59
So the devil turned himself into a fine lad and came into the smithy.
Who acts: devil · What happens: turn, come · To what, where: DEVIL, fine lad, smithy
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 (devil), 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 | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 lad | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lad | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lad | amod |
| 9 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 smithy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smithy | det |
| 14 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the devil | DEVIL | a fine lad | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into lad=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | the devil not said here | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into smithy=Initial_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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