Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 30
So they went to look where they might pass the night, went on and on, and they saw a little hut.
Who acts: thickets · What happens: go, look, pass, see · To what, where: little hut
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 (thickets), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 pass | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pass | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pass | aux |
| 9 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 on | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 on | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hut | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hut | amod |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | thickets = thicket | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | thickets = thicket not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | pass | might | thickets = thicket | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | thickets = thicket not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past | thickets = thicket | a little hut | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus |
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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