Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 137
But the soldier was not afraid and dived down after him into the pit, fell into the deep crevasse, fell down flat and lay for whole days unconscious.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: not be, dive down, fall, fall down, lay · To what, where: pit, deep crevasse
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 afraid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dived | cc |
| 8 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 dived | compound:prt |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dived | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 pit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pit | det |
| 14 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 crevasse | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crevasse | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crevasse | amod |
| 20 | crevasse | crevasse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lay | cc |
| 26 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fell | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 unconscious | case |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 days | amod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 unconscious | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lay | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the soldier | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dive down | past | the soldier not said here | the pit | after soldier | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pit=Location | |||
| 3 | fall | past | into the deep crevasse result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into crevasse=Result | |||||
| 4 | fall down | past | down, flat property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | for unconscious whole days | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for unconscious=Beneficiary |
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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