Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 32
He grew into the habit, whether he were going into the shop or returning home, always to go and stand in front of his foal.
Who acts: son · What happens: grow, go, return, stand · To what, where: habit, shop, front
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 habit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 habit | det |
| 5 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 grew | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 shop | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shop | det |
| 13 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 returning | cc |
| 15 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 going | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 returning | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stand | cc |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 front | case |
| 24 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stand | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 foal | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 foal | nmod:poss |
| 27 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 front | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | son | into the habit result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into habit=Result | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | son | the shop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into shop=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | return | gerund | son not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | always property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stand | infinitive | front of son's foal | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
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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