Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 1
One day he went into the wood, and the hairs of his dog bristled up.
Who acts: he, hairs · What happens: go, bristle up · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, hairs), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bristled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bristled | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hairs | det |
| 11 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bristled | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dog | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hairs | nmod |
| 15 | bristled | bristle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 bristled | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | the wood | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bristle up | past | the hairs of his dog | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=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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