Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 3
In some way or other the money fell from his hands and the coin tumbled into the well and was lost.
Who acts: money · What happens: fall, tumble, lose · To what, where: way, coin, well
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), 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 way | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 other | cc |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 money | det |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 coin | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coin | det |
| 14 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | conj |
| 15 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 coin | acl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 well | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 well | det |
| 18 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tumbled | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lost | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux:pass |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fell | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the money | some way | from money's hands and the coin | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | |||
| 2 | tumble | participle | the coin not said here | the well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | the money not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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