Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 23
All the doors were opened, and he looked, and the workman turned in all directions, and he did not know where to go.
Who acts: money, workman · What happens: open, look, turn, not know, go · To what, where: doors, directions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, workman), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 doors | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doors | det |
| 3 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 workman | det |
| 13 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 directions | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 directions | det |
| 17 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turned | conj |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 go | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | all doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | money | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | the workman | all directions | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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