Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 73
Their way may have been long, and it may have been short; and they at last reached a well.
Who acts: way, wallet · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: a
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 (way, wallet), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 way | nmod:poss |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 long | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 long | cop |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 short | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 short | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 short | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 short | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 short | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 short | cop |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADV | _ | 19 reached | obl |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 reached | obj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 reached | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may · perfect | wallet's way | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may · perfect | way | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | wallet | a | well property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent a=Theme at last=Asset |
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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