Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 46
But next morning the old man again got up very early, washed himself clean, and took the child into the field.
Who acts: old man · What happens: get up, wash, take · To what, where: man, child, field
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 washed | cc |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 washed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 washed | nsubj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 early | advmod |
| 11 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 got | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 13 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 washed | obj |
| 15 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 washed | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 washed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 field | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 field | det |
| 23 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the old man not said here | again | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wash | past | the old man | man | morning | clean property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||
| 3 | take | past | the old man not said here | the child | the field | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme into field=Destination |
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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