Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 64
So then he drove all the mares to the field, and this time they turned their tails, and they ran into the dreamy woods.
Who acts: head, stakes · What happens: drive, turn, run · To what, where: mares, field, tails, dreamy woods
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 (head, stakes), 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 | _ | 4 drove | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drove | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 mares | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mares | det |
| 7 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drove | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mares | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drove | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tails | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drove | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 woods | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 woods | det |
| 25 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woods | amod |
| 26 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ran | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | head | all mares | the field | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mare=Theme to field=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | turn | past | stakes = stake | stakes's tails | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | past | stakes = stake | into the dreamy woods result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
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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