Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 143
But Fílyushka was a real boy, and the first chance he got, off he was again to the apple-tree, clambered up.
Who acts: Fílyushka, first chance · What happens: be, get, clamber up · To what, where: real boy, apple tree
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 (Fílyushka, first chance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 boy | cc |
| 2 | Fílyushka | Fílyushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chance | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 chance | amod |
| 11 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boy | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tree | punct |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tree | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tree | cop |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 tree | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 21 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 apple | punct |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 clambered | punct |
| 25 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 tree | acl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 clambered | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fílyushka | a real boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the first chance | Fílyushka nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Fílyushka | again | off the apple tree | tree rules | |||
| 4 | clamber up | participle | the apple tree not said here | 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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