Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 26
So she gnawed and gnawed away, and at last made herself a path.
Who acts: Vertodúb · What happens: gnaw, gnaw away, make · To what, where: Vertodúb, last
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vertodúb), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gnawed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gnawed | nsubj |
| 3 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gnawed | cc |
| 5 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gnawed | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 gnawed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | obl |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gnawed | conj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gnawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | past | Vertodúb | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gnaw away | past | Vertodúb not said here | away property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Vertodúb not said here | Vertodúb | last | a path obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary path=Product |
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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