Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 124
The potter went on singing joyously and said, “In front of the house, at the very top of the carriage.”
Who acts: potter · What happens: go, sing, say · To what, where: front · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (potter), 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 potter | det |
| 2 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 singing | mark |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 5 singing | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 front | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 front | punct |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 top | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 top | advmod |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 carriage | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 carriage | det |
| 23 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the potter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the potter not said here | joyously property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the potter not said here | front of the house | at the top of the carriage | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in front=Manner |
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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