Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 53
Up went St. Nicholas to the peasant once again.
What happens: go · To what, where: Nicholas
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: 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 peasant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 again | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Nicholas St. | again | to the peasant | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nicholas=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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