Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 114
And she looked, and she looked, and she could not find him, and then the cock crew, and she went once more into the grave.
Who acts: witch · What happens: look, not find, go · To what, where: third, grave
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 looked | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crew | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 crew | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crew | det |
| 19 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crew | compound |
| 20 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 went | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 grave | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 grave | det |
| 29 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | witch | the cock crew conj | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past | witch | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not find | could | witch | third | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go | past | witch | the grave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into grave=Initial_Location |
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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