Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 111
This grieved the soldier, and he thought of deserting.
Who acts: This, soldier · What happens: grieve, think, desert · To what, where: soldier
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, soldier), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 grieved | nsubj |
| 2 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grieved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grieved | conj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 deserting | mark |
| 10 | deserting | desert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past | This | the soldier | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soldier=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | soldier | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | desert | gerund | soldier not said here | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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