Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 6
Then the soldier went into the sentry-box: and there were many people, and they stood or sat, only they had all been turned to stone.
Who acts: soldier, many people, people · What happens: go, be, stand, sit, turn · To what, where: sentry box, people, stone
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 (soldier, many people, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 box | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 7 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 box | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sentry | punct |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 were | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stood | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turned | punct |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 turned | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 turned | aux |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 turned | advmod |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 turned | aux:pass |
| 28 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stood | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 stone | case |
| 30 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the soldier | the sentry box | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into box=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | many people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | people | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sit | past | people not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | past · perfect · passive | people | stone | all property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
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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