Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 128
But in the third year, as he went out, he went to look in the garden, and saw that half of the best trees had been shattered.
Who acts: sentry · What happens: go out, go, look, see, shatter · To what, where: half · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sentry), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 year | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 year | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 half | det |
| 23 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 30 shattered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 trees | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trees | det |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 trees | amod |
| 27 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 half | nmod |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 shattered | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 shattered | aux:pass |
| 30 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 saw | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | sentry | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | sentry | year | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | sentry not said here | in the garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | sentry not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | shatter | past · perfect · passive | that half of the best trees | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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