Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 65
One day a peasant was going by night with pots on his head.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: go
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 (peasant), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 peasant | det |
| 4 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pots | case |
| 10 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 going | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pots | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | a peasant | day; night | with pots on Iván's head | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with pot=Beneficiary |
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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