Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 29
“I went out to find it, and it turned into a very poor thing.”
Who acts: son, luck · What happens: go out, find, turn · To what, where: luck, poor thing
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, luck), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 thing | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 poor | advmod |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out in a quote | past | the merchant's son = son | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | the merchant's son = son not said here | luck | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | past | luck | a poor thing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into thing=Trajectory |
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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