Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 26
Alyósha began going about the streets and playing with the young boys.
Who acts: Alyósha · What happens: begin, go, play
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha), 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 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 began | xcomp |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 streets | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 streets | det |
| 6 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 going | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 playing | cc |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 going | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 boys | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boys | amod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 playing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Alyósha | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | Alyósha not said here | about the streets | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about street=Location | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | Alyósha not said here | with the young boys | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boy=Co-Agent |
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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