Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 71
Very soon the corpse came back, looked about him and could not find the coffin lid anywhere, and began to hunt for it.
Who acts: corpse · What happens: come back, look, not find, begin, hunt · To what, where: coffin lid
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 (corpse), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corpse | det |
| 4 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 find | advmod |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 looked | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lid | det |
| 16 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lid | compound |
| 17 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 18 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 find | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hunt | mark |
| 23 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hunt | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the corpse | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the corpse not said here | about corpse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | the corpse not said here | the coffin lid | anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Topic | |||
| 4 | begin | past | the corpse not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | hunt | to-infinitive | the corpse not said here | for lid | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
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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