Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 148
And he went on still farther, and saw a hedge, and beneath that hedge there became visible old men, and they were all covered with slime.
Who acts: Lord, hedge · What happens: go on, see, become, cover · To what, where: hedge, visible old men, maidens
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, hedge), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 farther | advmod |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hedge | det |
| 11 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 hedge | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 hedge | det |
| 16 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | nsubj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 hedge | advmod |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 19 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 became | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 covered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 covered | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 covered | aux:pass |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 covered | advmod |
| 27 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 slime | case |
| 29 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 covered | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Lord | still | far property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Lord not said here | a hedge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hedge=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | become | past | that hedge | visible old men | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | maidens = maiden | with slime; all property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with slime=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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