Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 102
So the young boy went on and on, a far way, to the hut, and he stepped in.
Who acts: young boy, boy · What happens: go, step in · To what, where: far way, hut
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 (young boy, boy), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 on | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 on | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hut | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hut | det |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stepped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stepped | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stepped | nsubj |
| 20 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 stepped | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the young boy | a far way | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | step in | past | boy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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