Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 21
So he let down the basket right away into the pit.
Who acts: youth · What happens: let down · To what, where: basket
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 let | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pit | det |
| 11 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 away | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | past | youth | the basket | away property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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