Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 89
She went and sat down in the barouche and drove home, went up to her husband, and he fixed his eyes on her, and didn’t know his wife.
Who acts: Ilyá, husband · What happens: go, sit down, drive, go up, fix, not know · To what, where: barouche, eyes, wife
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 (Ilyá, husband), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 barouche | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 barouche | det |
| 8 | barouche | barouche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drove | cc |
| 10 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 drove | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 husband | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fixed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fixed | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fixed | nsubj |
| 21 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fixed | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fixed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 know | cc |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 know | aux |
| 29 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 know | advmod |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fixed | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 know | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ilyá | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Ilyá not said here | the barouche | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barouche=Location | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | Ilyá not said here | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | Ilyá not said here | to Ilyá's husband | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | fix | past | husband | husband's eyes | on Ilyá | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 6 | not know | past · do-support | husband not said here | husband's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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