Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 116
The other girls made their escape into the loft; one girl hid behind the water-butt.
Who acts: other girls, one girl · What happens: make, escape, hide · To what, where: loft, water butt
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 (other girls, one girl), 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 | 3 girls | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girls | amod |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 escape | nmod:poss |
| 6 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 loft | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loft | det |
| 9 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escape | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hid | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 girl | nummod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hid | nsubj |
| 13 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 butt | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 butt | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 butt | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 water | punct |
| 18 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the other girls | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | escape | infinitive | the other girls not said here | the loft | girls = girl nmod:poss | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into loft=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | hide | past | one girl | the water butt | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind butt=Location |
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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