Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 114
The girls tried to run away; and the bones raced after them.
Who acts: girls, bones · What happens: try, run away, race
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, bones), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 raced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 raced | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bones | det |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 raced | nsubj |
| 11 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 raced | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the girls | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girls not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | race | past | the bones | after girls = girl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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