Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 19
So he took her with him and led her out of the wood, and he went through the villages, inquiring of all of the places.
Who acts: youth · What happens: take, lead, go, inquire · To what, where: Russia, wood, villages
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 (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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 villages | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 villages | det |
| 20 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 inquiring | punct |
| 22 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 inquiring | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 places | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 places | det |
| 27 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 all | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | youth | Russia | with maiden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 2 | lead | past | youth not said here | Russia | the wood | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out wood=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | youth | the villages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | gerund | youth not said here | of all of the places | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of all=Recipient |
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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