Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
The old man went back home, and the boy slept all day long, until next morning, and did not wake up.
Who acts: old man, boy · What happens: go back, sleep, not wake up
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slept | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slept | nsubj |
| 11 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 slept | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 morning | punct |
| 16 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slept | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wake | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wake | cc |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wake | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 wake | advmod |
| 23 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 wake | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the old man | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | the boy | day; morning | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not wake up | past · do-support | the old man not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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