Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 155
So he went into the forest, and he went into the field, and he went to the river, and he could only think of her.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: go, think · To what, where: forest, field, river
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 (peasant), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 field | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 field | det |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 think | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 think | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 think | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 think | advmod |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 think | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | peasant | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | peasant | the field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | peasant | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | could | peasant | of wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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