Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 65
So the young boy thanked her for her kindness, said farewell; and he went farther until he reached the silver kingdom.
Who acts: young boy, boy · What happens: thank, say, go, reach · To what, where: bride, silver kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 thanked | 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 thanked | nsubj |
| 5 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thanked | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 kindness | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | conj |
| 12 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | conj |
| 17 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 reached | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kingdom | compound |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the young boy | bride | for bride's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young boy not said here | farewell property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | boy | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | boy | the silver kingdom | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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