Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 16

In some time, maybe long, maybe short, he found himself in a wood so wild, so dreamy, that he could not get out of it anywhere, and he began killing time and feeding on berries and roots.

Who acts: general · What happens: find, not get out, begin, kill, feed · To what, where: general, wood

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 (general), 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 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 short	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 short	punct
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	9 short	advmod
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 short	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 found	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 wild	advmod
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 found	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dreamy	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 dreamy	advmod
21	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 short	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 get	advmod
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dreamy	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	30 it	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	obl
31	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 get	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 began	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 began	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 began	nsubj
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 short	parataxis
36	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 began	xcomp
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 killing	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 feeding	cc
39	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 killing	conj
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 berries	case
41	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 feeding	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 roots	cc
43	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 berries	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	general	general	a wood		wild property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	not get out	could	general	wood			anywhere property	tree rules
3	begin	past	general					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	kill	gerund	general not said here			time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	feed	gerund	general not said here				on berries and roots	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on berry=Patient

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 16