Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 96
In the meantime, the smith had returned home and went to the smithy.
What happens: return, go · To what, where: smith, meantime, 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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meantime | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smith | det |
| 6 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | aux |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 returned | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 smithy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smithy | det |
| 14 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · perfect · passive | the smith | the meantime | home property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to 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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