Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 26
The light in his eyes turned dark, and a sleep fell on him, and he fell straight into the mud.
Who acts: light, sleep · What happens: turn, fall · To what, where: mud
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 (light, sleep), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 light | nmod |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sleep | det |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 mud | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 mud | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mud | det |
| 22 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the light in light's eyes | dark property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a sleep | on light | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | sleep | into the mud result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mud=Result |
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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