Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 12
The witch broke out of the coffin and passed over Iván and began to look for him all over the church.
Who acts: witch · What happens: break out, pass, begin, look · To what, where: coffin, Iván, church
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 coffin | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 coffin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coffin | det |
| 7 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 passed | cc |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 broke | conj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 Iván | case |
| 11 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 church | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 church | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 church | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | the witch | the coffin | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coffin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | the witch not said here | Iván | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over iván=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the witch not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | the church | for Iván | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme over church=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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